You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

On my own I generally have very messy hair, wear jeans and sneakers.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

In the end only kindness matters.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

Live your life with love and bravery and you shall lead a life uncommon.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Reality is what you believe it to be. It's what you put your thought and energy into, because your hands physically manifest thought. So your world becomes what you feel and what you think.

I don't see the world unless I see it in ink.

There's no such thing as a vote that doesn't matter.

A certain elementary training in statistical method is becoming as necessary for everyone living in this world of today as reading and writing.

Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another - there's no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I think we need to de-center the idea of US sovereignty.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

Love, we are a small pond.

Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.