Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

Happiness--like love--is itself an attitude.

Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

As he pulls away from her, his gaze meets mine, and we stare at each other for one long moment before I slowly raise my left hand and give him the middle finger.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

I may not like everyone but love all. No one is worthy of occupying my heart. You scored a point, so what? Congratulations. You're forgiven!

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

The most terrifying thing that ever happened to me was that Keith Moon decided he liked me.

Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.