Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away, but that it changes my perception and experience within them.~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

If the sky was full of stars and you didn't have one, don’t be sad, maybe the moon will be yours one day.

I shield to one who is pessimistic and shield to one who is optimistic leaving this in a wandering state.

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

The brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard.

I'm a realist and I always have been.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

Some people sleep until morning. Others know they have to bring the morning.

The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.