Tape record your parents' laughter

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Little deer, I've stuffed all the world's diseases inside you. / Your veins are thorns // and the good cells are lost in the deep dark woods / of your organs.

If you don't trust a novelist, who are you going to trust?

More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.

There are a lot of tactical decisions that, if I could have done them over, I would have.

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

Having precise ideas often leads to a man doing nothing.

Dead? No excuse for laying off work.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.