To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

It's easy to offer advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

The mind can start to work in your favor or against you at any given time. It's a matter of turning your thoughts and beliefs around.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

The novelist screws up his courage in order to invest another two or three years in another attempt to float a boat of original design upon an invented ocean.

When everybody does better, EVERYBODY does better.

The point of art is that it always has the necessity to expand because people are inherently expanding.

My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?