To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.

Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.

It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.

When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.

Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

Soon, " he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.

The things fishermen know about trout aren't facts but articles of faith.

If it is made in a lab then it takes a lab to digest.

Take Bach or Schubert: Their music was dedicated to God but filled and shaped their worldly lives. If you are a committed atheist, you lean back and miss all the richness of that history.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

It was easier to know a character's point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.

In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.