You wanted to live, " he says."You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue.""What is it really?"I think about this. "Selfish.""Wanting to live is selfish?""Yes.

You have a history of starving yourself, " he says gently.I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight.

Think twice as much as others.Study twice as much as others.Work twice as much as others.Give twice as much as others.

At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

If we learn more than the doctor in areas of value to our health, it is our duty to apply this knowledge to the betterment of ourselves and our families.

A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

Do I feel pressure being a young player with high expectations? Nah.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

If you have a dream, hold on to it, believe in it and never stop working hard to make it come true.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.