If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

I want people who write to crash or dive below the surface, where life is so cold and confusing and hard to see.Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth.

If I have not been both soothed by love and on the opposite extreme left devastated by it, I will never understand its power nor respect its majesty.

I didn't know there were this many math guys, " Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse.Kat cleared her throat. "And women, " he added. "Math women.

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

It's a new day: Full of promise and love. The only thing that can take away that great feeling is - reading the news or speaking to people.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

The Federalist Society has done more for the health of the law than any organization I have witnessed in my career.

I find that with some girls, the words work and education have gotten a bad rap.

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.