Attitude will always define who we are in life.

As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Profiting from companies that are overloading the atmosphere with carbon and changing the atmosphere is wrong.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.

To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.