A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

As an entrepreneur, value creation will always be your first line of defense against business failure.

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

My love ,she speaks like silence, without ideals or violence. She doesn't have to say she's faithful, yet she's true.

What can you expect from me in the next five years? Well... I'll get older

I'm not interested in being Donald Trump or anybody else's vice president, that's not what I'm aiming at.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.