Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

Innovation is finding the door of opportunity and revealing its beauty.

You make the best out of it, you can. Nothing is ever as good or as bad as you think it will be. It's what you make of it.

Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

The self is made, not given

Only the boring get bored

Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

God has high plans for you and me.

These are things they need to hear, baby. It's their history.

It is the heart that is important.