What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

A nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones.

Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties.

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.