Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.

Letting go is freedom. When you find yourself in a useless battle, you merely walk off the battlefield.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much.

Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain?

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Democrats are firm believers in the welfare state for their own constituents, whether that's a crack addict mother of five or a Wall Street banker.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.

The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin.

You know, I have no web presence, and I don't know that there's many people who really do know me that much anymore.

To a valet no man is a hero.

Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.