If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.

The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected.

A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Only love that continues to flow in the face of anger, blame, and indifference can be called love. All else is simply a transaction.

Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.

There is no transcending our minds, only using them optimally.

The self-judging person will always judge others. The rubric we develop for ourselves, the measuring stick we put against our own mind and body, generalizes to every other human being.

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul.

The mind, just like the body, becomes exactly what it is fed. While the body is nourished by food, the mind is nourished by thoughts.

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

Even the bravest of us loath war, and those who long for it are the most dangerous.

Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.

The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.

In racing there are always things you can learn, every single day. There is always space for improvement, and I think that applies to everything in life.

"Haters only hate things they can't have and the people they can't be. It's just a little thing called jealousy."

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.