No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

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.

success is key, Knowledge is power, when we put them both we make an honor

Great opportunities come to all but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

The place where the interests of all parties come together is the international community, along with its resolutions.

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.