You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

...she felt as if her entire body were glowing with the taste of sunlight, of wind blowing in wide spaces and trees reaching their burdened arms to boundless skies.

Forgiveness is not about letting anybody 'off the hook.' Forgiveness actually has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving. It does, however, have everything to do with you.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Well, we want to make sure there's not securities fraud.

Time is not something that can be measured with a pendule. Time is something that we build together within a tribe, a family, a region.

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.

To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.