She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Your soul needs a Lover more than your floor needs carpet.

I'm a big admirer of Walter Willett's work. I think he's done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.

A mistake a lot of girls make is that they work out but don't eat enough. If you're not eating enough, all the work outs are doing, it's not going to show.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level.

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up."