Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

We search for everything we believe we don't have, not knowing that everything we are looking for is already inside us. We are born with it.

The real us is pure love, pure light

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

We only see what we want to see; we only hear what we want to hear. Our belief system is just like a mirror that only shows us what we believe.

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

When you love without conditions, you the human and you the God, align with the spirit of life moving through you.

Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream.

She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.

With a hoarse moan, he swept her against him, kissing her wildly, passionately, his mouth promising and teasing, as if her kiss had broken the dam that had held back his passion.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.

It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live up to the Plimptonian legacy, I am humble and proud.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.