We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

The problem is we think we exist.

There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

She had made reason and common sense her gods. She had allowed people who did not know what she knew or understand what she unstood to be her mentors.

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

Any professional league that goes on strike right now - that's just suicide.

As I get older, the more I don't want my life to be emotionally out of balance in the way it was in my twenties.

Every day I break my own personal record for number of days I have been alive.

In the United States, we do a pretty good job of protecting iconic landscapes and postcard views, but the ocean gets no respect.

You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.