When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

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.

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.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

The Bravest Thing I Ever Did Was Continuing My Life When I Wanted To Die.

Get in touch with your passion and put it to work at work.

You don't have to be good all the times. It's okay to be hurt sometimes. It's okay to feel lost like you're wandering around the dark. It's the bad days that make the good ones so much better.

Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are “The Commanded Conjoined Twins” for Jesus Followers

Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him.

The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

I do acting for the awards... and cash money.

I just think it's a really unique thing to women, this weird psychotic jealousy.

Love is the true condition of human life.