Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy, mastery, and belonging.

I believe that living out loud and not letting fear hold you back is the key to the fullest, most rewarding life possible

Think of your moods as a thermometer that takes the temperature of your life, if you just want to be happy all the time, it's like wanting to break your thermometer.

Interestingly, the very experience of fear itself is the tip-off moment, the signal that a possibility for action is opening up and so a choice needs to be made.

Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings, who tries his strength the instant he has put a man and a woman face to face?

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.

A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable.

...in the face of all dangers, in what may seem a godless region, we move forward through the agencies of love and art.

We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.

For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon.