The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

Why the anchor?""Because sometimes, it's nice to feel like there's someone who can save you.

From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time.

God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.