The question for writing then is this: how long are you willing to be unheard?

Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.

It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.

Certainty is rarely if ever possible and we increase the likelihood of getting things wrong if we succumb to the hunger for it.

I am fighting to stay alive not because I fear death, but because I love life.

Anger is how you feel. Hate is not letting your anger flow

Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

It's great to win, but it's also great fun just to be in the thick of any truly well and hard fought contest against opponents you respect, whatever the outcome.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills