Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.

Women who got married got screwed.

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

If you can, judge less and observe more.

Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.

What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.

Here's what Mike knew about kids: They did stupid stuff. Pretty much all of them.

Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

Where your pain is, there your heart lies also.

You can never evaluate anything standing from outside; you have to evaluate yourself first.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

I feel like there is this weird thing where celebrity involvement in political campaigns kind of goes together like peanut butter and chocolate. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad.