The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.

The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

If it is sweet to be right, then - let's not deny it - it is downright savory to point out that someone else is wrong.

Take away the ability of an intelligent, principled, hard-working mind to get it wrong, and you take away the whole thing.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better.

You are eternal, beautiful, and real.

She felt the lurch of a head rush. The boy who had not paid attention to her

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?

I'll be the in to your sane.

I've lost a hand, a father, a son, a sister, and a lover, and soon enough I will lose a brother. And yet they keep telling me House Lannister won this war.

Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.

There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.