We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

Spring is here. Let’s sing with the flowers!

If you don't go when you want to go, when you do go, you'll find you've gone.

I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.

I love live music. I love going to the event. And to know them as people and to have seen the Grateful Dead grow up and become who they are is so incredibly special.

One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.