I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith"Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c) 2012

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first.

I wanted to be the moron of the family, because morons seemed to have more fun, more freedom and more personality.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

A salad is not a meal, it is a style.

The best practical advice then is: try to maximize your expected payoff, which is the sum of all payoffs multiplied by probabilities.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.