Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy-the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won't tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired. You're in a car with a beautiful boy, and you're trying not to tell him that you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you didn't even have a name for.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

At school there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

The bottom line is when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities not only are they many times more productive they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

You can't get there by bus only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

When you discover your mission you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom they will discover your ignorance.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.

But if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse and no place in our nation's police departments.