A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

— Eric Weiner

All genuinely creative ideas are initially met with rejection, since they necessarily threaten the status quo. An enthusiastic reception for a new idea is a sure sign that it is not original.

— Eric Weiner

A simple question to identify your true home: where do you want to die?

— Eric Weiner

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energies and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm of negativity.'... The Brits don't merely enjoy misery, they get off on it.

— Eric Weiner

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

— Eric Weiner

Einstein's secretary once said that if Einstein were born among the polar bears, he would still be Einstein. But unless polar bears were well versed in theoretical physics, that is not true. Einstein would not be Einstein. Which is not to take anything away from Einstein, or the polar bears, but simply to point out that he was part of a creative ecology, and trying to isolate him from it is not only silly but futile.

— Eric Weiner

First, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.

— Eric Weiner

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

— Eric Weiner

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

— Eric Weiner

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

— Eric Weiner