Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Balance: a dance with how and when.

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

It was the first airplane . . . that could make money just by hauling passengers.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Phoenix arrested three people. As soon as he arrested those three people, everybody else immediate left.

When you work with your hands, you learn to appreciate how easy it is to earn money talking.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.