Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

Jump or stay in the boat.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

There are more reasons for people's actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

Spirit Math: The quality of your life equals the ratio of appreciation to complaint.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

As long as you know what you are doing and how to anticipate and throw, I don't think you need all that much physically.

True Budo is to accept the spirit of the universe, keep the peace of the world, correctly produce, protect and cultivate all beings in nature.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.