Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

​Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality.

My friends are always conscious of what people think of them. As though life is something that has an audience.

A queen could leave her t

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

TMI? Too Much Information. It”s just easier to say 'TMI'. I used to say 'don't go there', but that's lame.

It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.

The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.

The secret of success in pitching lies in getting a job with the Yankees.