Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

To take a thought, to gingerly package it in a handful of words, and then to deliver it to a person for whom both the thought and the words within which it came are life-saving is writing at its best. Anything else is scribbling at its worst.

If I don’t learn how to think, then I don’t think I’ll ever learn.

We need to pay attention to our decisions, for they will determine the losses that we will experience as well as the losses that we will avoid.

Patience is the thing that makes me think about my choices rather than having my choices make me think about why I made them.

Great writing is about packing a single thought into a handful of words so that your life can be enlarged by a boatload of growth. And if what you’re reading isn’t doing that for you, it’s just scribbling.