From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten

Whatever language we use use to describe healthy relationships, when we’re in them, we feel nourished by them, in body as well as mind.

A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still

No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of my thoughts-I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.