Michael Chabon Quote

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

Love is just a contact of no refusal.

The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

If we could get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind about being happy, that's when your positive thoughts work.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.