In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone — the library. And I never met a library I didn’t like.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

No one knows more about the way you think than you do.

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.

I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

You can turn your goals into gold.

A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

I had started doing theater in high school, and while I was doing that, I got my manager.

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.