Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

I took a day to search for God And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge through woods untamed Just where one scarlet lily flamed I saw His foot print in the sod.

Over the years, Steve has come to understand I need the clicker. He says it's my security blanket.

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, I'm going to ace this. It's just not who I am.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.

When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.

Tibetans are great with meritorious practices.

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.