Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.