In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.

Eden is a factory and human was a reject.We are being recalled in order to be fixed.

The Best of you, are those who are the Best to their families.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

Our competitors aren’t taking our market share with devices; they are taking our market share with an entire ecosystem.