Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.

Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.

Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.

There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

When one is genuinely ready, Truth finds a way to introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling of separation.

Tony Abbott would do anything but sell his arse

Will my enimies flee when they see me? Belive me, even thugz gotta learn to take it easy!