Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.

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.

Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

I think one should do what seems right. And if what seems right involves danger...well, one must risk the danger.

They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.