Forget the soul. No such ghost in the machine. What happens to our mind befalls our body also. The condition of the body is also the state of the mind.

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own

A little thinking is a dangerous thing.

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what we have become, or can perhaps be.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

There's no big budget Canadian movie. Whatever movies are big budget in Canada come from the states. Or also have states financing. Everything's pretty small.

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's sometimes looked at as unpatriotic. It's not.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

Lucky people create, notice and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives. Being in the right place at the right time is actually all about being in the right state of mind.

Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.