I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Everybody falls, and we all land somewhere.

Never settle up for something that is lesser than what you expected.

Look around when you have got your first mushroom or made your first discovery: they grow in clusters.

Nothing is impossible to a valiant heart.

I used to work in a factory and I was really happy because I could daydream all day.

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

Either we will spend our lives trying to take care of ourselves or we will let go and let God take care of us as we put our faith and trust in Him.

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available.

Vision with action makes a powerful reality.

Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.