You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

For me, running is about freedom. I find that the freer I feel, the faster I am.

Inside every woman there is a Kali. [Hindu goddess who morphed into seven hidden beings to win a battle] Do not mistake the exterior for the interior.

Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.

I think science and spirituality are one and the same, I don't think they're really different. The film makes pretty clear that quantum physics is validating all kinds of spiritual teachings.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

If your life were a book, and you were the author, how would you want your story to go?

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

When I was a kid I just had headphones on all the time, and it changed the way I see things and the way I interpret things.

My kids are my main hobby but, now they’ve gotten older, they’ve forced me to do things without them. I do a lot of things with my boat. My wife and I enjoy boating.

I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.

It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".