Women need space and silence. We too quickly give away our energy. There's something about holding that richness.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Roald Amundsen says that ‘Adventure is just bad planning.’ In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

You only live once, so enjoy the ride.

I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.

I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.