I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Yes, we're still five little people with a noisy attitude.

The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative.

Evaluations, in essence, are... ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate.

My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my daughter sort of owns me.

I trained with an ex-Navy Seal. We shot a lot of guns. Real bullets... I underwent commando training.

Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

Too many women have given up the power over the years because men have created the terms.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.