The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into.

Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension.

You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.