You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Don't look backwards. That never does any good. Think about the future instead.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

Bringing the IRS to heel can start with re-energizing and expanding congressional investigations and holding accountable those responsible for the targeting and other abuses.

Without being legalistic, we should be careful and wise in all decisions we make.

I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

Don't let others define you. Define yourself.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

We need to learn to treat our own brain better - understanding how it works will help us do that.

I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.