Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

I would want forever with you.

They say money is the rude of all evil, however I know poor people that can quite fit the bill.

Authority forgets a dying king

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

empty whiskey bottles strewn about like forgotten failures

Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!