You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.

When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

All my life I have fought corruption.

Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.