Our schools are much like our prisons: they disappoint us because they only do what they're designed to do, and it annoys us that they don't do something else!

There is no one right way to live.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

We are all captives of a story.

If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us - on you and me - and say to themselves, "My God, what kind of monsters were these people?"

We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.