The Universe has a plan to make sure we don't ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.

When I was a little kid, I used to walk miles and miles and miles and miles and miles and miles of railroad tracks.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

I've always said the toughest thing about learning to feel your feelings is that then you have to feel your feelings.

Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.

One thing I'm always thinking about myself is what am I willing to make up? And the answer is not much.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God

I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I love you because you're a child and you're scared.' You're going to hurt me in the end. You're quite mad.

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

The more people know, the more people share. The more people improve the quality of their lives, the more they'll talk to other people about it, and then they'll help each other.

Politeness is organized indifference.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays