Our social contract is becoming an exchange of free thought for mindless stimuli.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves.

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

The rare opportunity to exist, no matter how brief, is worth the pain left in the wake of its disappearance.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

If you rest, you rust.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Stress is an indicator of our belief in the value and validity of our worries and fears.

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.