Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.

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.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

Art should never try to be popular.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

People can be quite bullish with their opinions. That does not mean they have their finger on the pulse. It just means they value their own opinion.