To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.

The knowledge, which makes you ‘emotional’, is worldly awareness. True awareness does not make you ‘emotional’.

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.

I'm a humanist and an optimist.

And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.