Spiritual life is contractual.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

I think it's scandalous that we haven't done more to cure cancer.

I have this attitude to life that is not to take anything too seriously and not worry about anything, and when I met him I wasn't too nervous and I was being myself.

You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.

Our brand is sassy people ripping apart technologists, then going to a party with them.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.

That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.