"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."

The mind is a biological instrument for managing life's challenges.

We don’t try to predict the future. We try to buy things that are cheap.

"You can’t just sit down and write a book. That’s not how books get written. Books get written by living your life, by being open to the world, by paying attention."

The value of art is not in its technique, but in its truth.