If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties.

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Here is the beginning of philosophy: a recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgement.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

I’m not short. I’m…vertically disadvantaged.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.