I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.

What will matter is the good we did, not the good we expected others to do.

Grief is an expression that you loved well.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

When we slow down, quiet the mind, and allow ourselves to feel hungry for something that we do not understand, we are dipping into the abundant well of spiritual longing.

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical.

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!''Valdez who?

Sweet serenity

We know what we are but know not what we may be.

We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.

Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

You’re not the one having a hard time in the battlefield. The enemy’s also having a hard time—the only question is who breaks down first.

I believe that you've got to love your work so much that it is all you want to do.

I am much more optimistic about consumer-driven change than I am governmental change. Anything can happen in government, but I do think we consumers can drive true change.

Brave, bold people, these are what we want.

Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.