“First, love one another very deeply, and don’t be ashamed to express your love openly and often. Also, enjoy one another, and guard zealously your time together so as to enjoy it to the fullest extent.”

“Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.”

“The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It’s found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.”

“The perfect human being is uninteresting. — Joseph Campbell”

“A number I'd love to know: the % of those now saying 'we have to vote Obama to stop an attack on Iran' who will support one if Obama does it.”

“It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.”

“in the story no one smiles,no lesson is learned.the narrator can not change any one's heartthe story is agate to another story,which opens onto a story after that. i made it up but the story is true.”