Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.