Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

…this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

Bear good fortune modestly.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

When in doubt, win the trick.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

People like me took Donald Trump literally, but never seriously. But his supporters took him seriously and not literally.

Dreams do come true. Yes, even yours. But you have to meet them part way. Get up and do something towards them. Now.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.