Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.