Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive things.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

Leaders create a legacy daily.

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

Those who would give up their civil liberties for security deserve neither.

It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.