How wonderful it must be, to be unable to remember things that once caused us distress. Yet we should embrace all our memories, whether joyful or painful. They're all we ever really own in this life.

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

It's a paradox of the true spiritual path, but the more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.

Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

I have days when I just feel I look like a dog.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

The more we pay for any truth, the better is our bargain.