What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.