When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

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.

Only God can make the common sacred.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciproc

Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg rolls.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

I've heard the rumors but you won't come clean. I guess I'm hoping it's because of me.