Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.
God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace. ” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.
what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.
Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fateful decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp and alert. It's great if you're driving at 3 o'clock in the morning. It's not so great if you're trying to come up with the next violin concerto.
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
God has supplied all my needs and has not failed me once.
I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.
Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.