“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“The storm is out there and every one of us must eventually face the storm. When the storm comes, pray that it will shake you to your roots and break you wide-open. Being broken open by the storm is...”

“Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.”

“Real limitations can be reasonably challenged and expanded, but a hobbled mind is not going anywhere.”

“Your life is always a perfect reflection of your state of heart and mind, and of your truest identity.”

“There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.”

“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”

“You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!”

“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”

“Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.”

“How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?”

“...interests are not discovered through introspection. Instead, interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world. The process of interest discovery can be messy, serendipitous, and in...”

“You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write”

“The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.”

“Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had ...”