It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The deeper you go into the Word of God, the more light you will receive for your life and the wiser you will be in your actions.

I loved growing up in Canada. It's a great place to grow up because - well, at least where I grew up - it's very multicultural. There's also good health care and a good education system.

Sound science must be a basis to governing our trade relations around the globe.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.