Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

A lot of men tend to want "models"I tell men, unless they look like a model themselves, they can't expect to land one.

As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, "Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That's where I am, and thats where your treasure is.

Don't depend on anyone else to toot your horn. I mean, do you really want their lips on it, anyway?

This world has been connected. Tied to the darkness... soon to be completely eclipsed. There is so very much to learn. You understand so little.

Peace like charity begins at home.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.