The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

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.

The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.

The only true God!

We cannot run away from our problems. We have to pray for strength to conquer,

Being with her was near impossible.But being without her… I didn’t want to think about it. -- Aren from Hunter's Moon

I never saw a lad, page or prince, so eager to learn to do a thing right.

I would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.