The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.
The miracle of your mind isn't that you can see the world as it is. It's that you can see the world as it isn't.
The point isn’t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise.
I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people. . . To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.