You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.

When someone tells you they’re too busy, it’s not that they mismanage their time, it’s that you’re not a priority.

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

When you sit with an enlightened teacher physically, the teacher moves in and out of different states of mind. That is how you learn to do it yourself.

We have very smart players and they've been fortunate to play for three very good coaches.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Helping someone is what life is all about.