A daydreamer is prepared for most things.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the world and how to live in it.

The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.

No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginningOf your wisdom-light.

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Music is an experience, not a science.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

When it comes to economics, president-elect [Donald] Trump has promised to revive American manufacturing, get tough on trade with China, cut taxes and invest in infrastructure.

What are you doing for others?