It’s a good thing babies don’t give you a lot of time to think. You fall in love with them and when you realize how much they love you back, life is very simple.

It was one of those perfect fall days when the air is cool enough to wake you up but the sun is also kissing your face.

My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick.

If you treat every question like you've never heard it before, your students feel like you respect them and everyone learns a lot more. Including the teacher.

The premise is: everybody's like me and we all think alike.The corollary is: people who don't think like me don't matter.

If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Happiness can be achieved through training the mind.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

It's okay to love something bigger than yourself without fearing it. Anything worth loving is bigger than we are anyway.

Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

In the world of bad movies, 'Death to Smoochy' is a towering achievement.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.