Pop music is like an auditory cup of coffee. It has no nutritional value but it gets you going.

You know what I could use? A thrill.

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

It’s two things

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

The sooner we rein in the red tape factory in Washington, D.C., the sooner small businesses can get back to creating jobs and helping more Americans find an honest day's work.

Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

You can't help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it's liable to cause you to do.

I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

It is a very powerful feeling to know that my work is affecting people and to hear it from them directly.

Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.