Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one’s mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.

Novelties please less than they impress.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

If we immerse ourselves in the ultimate good, we will have this silly smile on our face or perhaps just inside our hearts. That is what illumination is.

I remember the very first suit I bought. It was a three-piece denim suit with bell-bottoms.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

You don’t create your future. You create your daily habits, and they create your future.

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.