Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.

Curation is more than packaging-it is to help readers [discern] what is important in the world.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

I think you need to be a little in love—not necessarily in a romantic sense, although that helps—but to be in love with the reality of your own life.

Life is a continual process of arrival into who we are.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

Because it is possible to create - creating one's self, willing to be one's self - one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever.

What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

he cult of productivity has its place, but worshipping at its altar daily robs us of the very capacity for joy and wonder that makes life worth living...

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.

...what is the use of making everybody rich if the rich themselves are miserable?

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

I think probably anyone would say, the worst and the hardest things to deal with is when people say things that aren't true. Or that are kind of true but exaggerated.

...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

I make the kind of music I like

In the dark, all cats are black.

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth.