A good story is [a] kind of irritant. You read it, then you cannot stop thinking about it. Eventually, your mind and heart encyst about it, and what occurs is a pearl of the soul.

We write not just to show off, not just to tell, or only to have written. We write to know ourselves.

It was mathematical, marriage. Not, as one might expect, additional. It was exponential.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

The more you think you have to use physical force to control life, the less you control life.

Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.

This is the difference between depression and sorrow - sorrowful, you are in great trouble because something matters so much; depressed, you are miserable because nothing really matters.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

Each person shows something different, in every challenge that they come across.