When you’re stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Wonder is not a Pollyanna stance, not a denial of reality; wonder is an acknowledgement of the power of the mind to transform, to notice, to decide what experience shall mean.

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.

Words are how we think; stories are how we link.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

In the midst of overwhelming noise and distraction, the voice of story is calling us to remember our true selves.

To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

Spiritual life is contractual. The sacred cannot dialogue with the unresponsive.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

We need money not only for meeting our own needs, but also for fulfilling God’s plans.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses but that horses may not be stolen.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

The very long tail of the future is already here.

The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?

Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

The eyes are the window to where the soul is supposed to be.