Emotions must not be part of the decision process: decisions must be clinical and well calculated.

We all fall on hard times, ” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction.

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

The idea that a child doesn't have the opportunity to be a child is devastating.

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance with you there, cheek to cheek.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.