But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

She’s a gray woman with gray sayings.” “A crape-hanger.

But by far the worst thing we do to males—by making them feel they have to be hard—is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.

She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?

Smartass Disciple: Master, tell me what is it beyond this universe ?Master of Stupidity: No 'space' in no 'gravity'. No 'thing' in spaceless.

Words gain credibility by deed.

Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

We are broken open, or we willfully shed.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

Love is such a vast sea, it has neither edges nor ends nor corners.

If someone else doesn't like your confidence, that's their problem. Why? You always come before they do, that's why.

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.