One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

My mother is very ideologically based, and her ideology is much more important in many ways than her personal relationships.

Take this one in my belly. He (or she) is determined to be here. I can feel the force of his being. It's as if he has something to do here and just wants to arrive and grow up so he can get to it.

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind

If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.

Caring about the happiness of others, we find our own.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.

I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes it's really challenging to get anything good out of myself.

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist.