I waited a second. Should I? No... but I will.

The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.

I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

Everything...affects everything

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

In the end....everything matters.

Sometimes, I worry I'm winning.

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.

You've got to tell your money what to do or it will leave.

My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

I am neither virgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.

In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.

If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.

Even those who fancy themselves the most progressive will fight against other kinds of progress, for each of us is convinced that our way is the best way.

Mr. Gandhi, you have been working fifteen hours a day for fifty years. Don't you think you should take a vacation?" Gandhi smiled and replied, "I am always on vacation.