I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

I still think of you every day.But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.

Women need to shift from thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".

Both the teardrop and the tempest are made of water, making it the most yielding and most destructive force on Earth.

We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.

The only international language in the world is a child's cry.

The operative assumption today is that someone, somewhere, has a better idea; and the operative compulsion is to find out who has that better idea, learn it, and put it into action-fast.

Unregulated competition is a naive metaphor for anarchy.

Life finds its wealth by the claims of the world, and its worth by the claims of love.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.