Quando percebemos nossos sentimentos e nossas emoções, quando conseguimos verbalizar o que sentimos, os libertamos.

O amadurecimento de um ser humano é como o de uma planta, de uma flor. Não podemos forçar para que se abra, pois suas pétalas quebrariam. Não podemos esquecer que tudo tem seu tempo.

Não controlamos todas as causas, todas as condições e muito menos todos os efeitos do que fazemos, falamos e pensamos. Mas podemos trabalhar nas nossas intenções, nos nossos votos, nos nossos valores e, agindo através da compaixão, com discernimento, procurar minimizar a dor e o sofrimento no mundo.

“Algumas vezes, temos de ser o barqueiro, alguém que mostre às pessoas que há uma outra margem e que é possível chegar lá.” Abandonar o sofrimento, o papel de vítima e se libertar para viver apreciando a vida.

A verdadeira amizade permanece sem recalques, sem segredos. Na confiança de perceber e de compreender sem julgar.

Céu e inferno estão em nós mesmos. Quando entramos no mundo do ódio, da raiva, do rancor, da vingança, do ciúme, do tédio, da preguiça, da ganância, da ignorância, penetramos o inferno. Perdemos a condição de apreciar a vida. Sofremos e causamos sofrimento.

Quando penetramos o mundo da compreensão, da sabedoria, da compaixão, da ternura, do amor incondicional, adentramos os portais do céu. Recuperamos a capacidade de apreciar a vida. Alegramo-nos e causamos alegrias a muitos seres.

Moonshot thinking starts with picking a big problem: something huge, long existing, or on a global scale.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Sometimes bullies are your friends and very rarely do bullying prevention tips acknowledge this fact or what to do about it.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I do not mourn the death of the printed letter in a snobby, East Coast, patrician way - 'Where have our manners gone?' - but because I love objects, I love paper, and I love something that I can hold to my chest for a moment. Still, I bear no grudge against the e-mail form itself.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Mind moves matter.

I dont wish to be everything to everyone but I would like to be something to someone.

I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.

Believe it or not, I was all fully rounded by the time I was nine years old.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.

It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.

My wife can see always how a part affects me personally because she has to live with it.

I actually love woodworking. I'm just getting into it. And I love playing guitar, I'm a big movie aficionado, and I like hiking.

You can wear a beautiful black dress that you've maybe had for years, but if you wear a fun shoe, you can completely change it. Wear something different, something sexy, something strappy, or something with pom poms.

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that.

Pretending that there are no choices to be made - reading only books, for example, which are cheery and safe and nice - is a prescription for disaster for the young.

A little-known secret is that being a pro athlete is not that great. It's a pretty short lifespan. I know all these parents are out there driving their children to be professionals, but so many pros will tell you, 'No, you don't want to do this.'

Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.

There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.