Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

Fanatics are like debris following the course of the wind, they are swept around like sand, and convinced to believe in what they do not understand.

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty

time spent in being interrupted is not time lost. ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.