But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.

I look forward to competing.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

The world is begging for you to lead.

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.

I don't really have aspirations to be Tom Hanks.