Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

There is a kind of silver spiderweb that's spun around the world, and the strands of that web are certain loves and certain understandings. And if we follow those, and if we walk those strands, we're going to meet others at the intersections who have been walking the same way across this web. And when we meet, there's a kind of "I know who you are."

No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.

That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me warm again and then some.

Character comes from following our highest sense of right, from trusting ideas without being sure they’ll work.