I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.