Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.

And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me."

We are not to be so concerned about who approves or disapproves of us, but remember that God's approval is what counts. Those whom God approves are approved indeed.

Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.