We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

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 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.

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.

There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict.

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.

Academic freedom and free speech mean the right to consider ideas with which you might disagree.

There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

When an individual does not become conscious of their inner contradictions, the world acts out the conflict and is torn in opposite halves.

Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.

I don't care about [being a star]. The most important thing for me now is just do my job.

I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean.

You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.