"People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around."

"Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier."

"Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own."

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

"Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it."

"From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages."

"Wisdom principle 11 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 7."

"I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream."