Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?

People who know their worth understand the power of their own words.

The superb use the mind as mirror, not welcoming nor rejecting, reflect without hiding, and triumph without harming. (Chuang Tzu)

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.

Who can resist when destiny calls?

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.