Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

External circumstances do not create feeling states. Feeling states create external circumstances.

This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.

Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life.