Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life. I don't know who it was, but someone said that careful attention paid to anything is a window into the universe. Pausing to think this way, even for a brief moment, is very important. It gives quality to my day.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

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.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.