He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

What i want is for what i want to actually matter.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale-- why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of lobster.

I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood.