In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

Maybe I'm dreaming you. Maybe you're dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each other's dreams and every morning when we wake up we forget all about each other.

The Government will not abandon the free conversion of the rouble

I believe in winning. It is clean. I like it. I definitely don't believe in losing. It is a bad attitude. It is not necessary to lose, but it does happen once in a while.

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.