Life is not measured by what you have. It's measured by what you give.

Stop looking to others for inspiration. Stop looking at past accomplishments. Be your own inspiration today and for tomorrow.

A life without adversity is just bland existence.

Peace doesn't mean never offending anyone. Peace means never taking offense from anyone.

Cat herding is simple. Just drag a string behind you.

Hire an angel. They need the work.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

I don't understand myself in relationships and I don't understand relationships. So to continue to explore them and to try and work that out is honestly what I am really doing.

The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

Within the United States, there is a real division between the PhDs given in science and math to the Asian community, to the traditional white community, and then to African-Americans and Hispanics.

I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.