If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.