- Actions define a person. An ideology that never appears in daily conduct is only decoration.
- God is in the details. A finished work is the accumulation of meaningful strokes, including the ones nobody else notices.
- Contentment is not anticipation. At twenty-two, I once walked outside in the sun with nothing on my mind and nothing I was waiting for. Everything was beautiful. I thought that if life ended at that instant, I would already be satisfied.
- Intensity is both a strength and a trap. I tend either to commit completely or lose interest. The task is not to remove that intensity, but to stop requiring every worthwhile action to begin with inspiration.
- Memory follows emotion. Events associated with grief, fear, or joy can remain vivid even when they are neither recent nor frequently revisited.