Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.

Distance is an outer phenomenon. In the inner world, everything is connected with love.

Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second.

Graciously live life.

The only confession Jolene had ever wrenched from him was that he had cared about her.

I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.

If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.

If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.