No matter how stark the reality, a human being fits it into a narrative that is palatable.

We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

It's easier to get over a lost body than a lost soul.

You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

He who desires naught will always be free.

We're all being tested...That's what life is.

I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.

If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.

From purest wells of English undefiled None deeper drank than he, the New World's Child, Who in the language of their farm field spoke The wit and wisdom of New England folk.

If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.