You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Goals are dreams with a deadline.

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

For all I see, humanity is lost. It's devastatingly sad.

If you make a hiring mistake, make the change quickly. Don’t ignore problems. Don’t assume it will get better.

In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom, ' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.

If you don't know what to do, find your worst Piece and look for a better Square.

I love you not for the person you are, but for your possibilities.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.