If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

When you judge anyone or anything you are ultimately judging another aspect of yourself.

I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

You look at someone like Beyoncé singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.

A woman is no sooner ours than we are no longer hers.

When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.

Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.