You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.

Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist says, ‘Don’t be so sad. Things can always get worse.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.