We only know how to lose and be lost.

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.

Do you not wonder about the mysteries of life?

Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility.

Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.