Without such trust and safety, social relationships tend to become strategic rather than cooperative, increasingly full of skepticism and even anxiety and fear about others' intentions. (p. 27)

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

...it is often more difficult to remember to be mindful than to be mindful itself. (p. 47)

Every age has its darkness....

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

The biggest challenge I think every publisher is facing is how do we get readers to pay for content? So we're constantly testing, trying new things.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.