...I realized that rewards are not the goal- if one seeks the ultimate it will elude you. The reward is life itself, in its richness, in its sadness, and joy.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

Worry about tomorrow steals the joy from today.

Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

Spare the person but lash the vice.

When you represent the state of Washington, we have a tradition of deciding social issues by vote. Washington State passed abortion rights before Roe v. Wade and affirmed it at the ballot box later.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.