You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

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.

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Intuition is the gentle hand of divine love.

I can barely breathe but I think that his lips might be better than oxygen at the moment.

We should feel grateful instead of entitled. We have a moral obligation to give back.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.