Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

your imagination is the key to the door of freedom

You haven't failed until you stop trying.

Come on, "he meowed to Greystripe."Let's go home.

Politicians and low profiles rarely went together.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

If she was going to die, she might as well die sarcastic.

Anybody who says I can't do something, it just motivates me more than you could believe.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.