In the desert, the only god is a well.

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

To a lot of children, school is currently mostly a place to learn what you aren’t any good at.

Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.

And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

I came to America so that I could work with the best and be the best.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

So maybe it was just as well that my companion was more like Mulder. A coked-out Mulder with a lot of weapons, who knew that the monsters under the bed were real and would gut you.

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.