You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

Love is your service to humanity

It is virtues that make a man not prosperity.

If we're at the lowest point in history, that means we're in a new Cold War.

Do not be a sniveler. Do not say you can't be happy, you can't be enlightened. How do you know? It is all chaos.

You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion.

I think that, in general, when you want to make a case, It important to be as clear and honest and persuasive as you can be about stating the opposite case, rather than attacking strawmen.

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

Treasure this day and Treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.

A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long.... for weeding I use it delicately to nudge the soil loose from roots without breaking them.