Freedom is no guarantee of anything. It is only defined today by what it is not. What it is takes forms strange and of infinite variety - bizarre as in a masquerade.

The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

New gods arise when they are needed.

What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

If humans can live for 100 years, why do companies die so young.

Rich is my word for someone who can afford to make choices, who has enough resources to do more than merely survive.

I've learned to surround myself with women who lift me up and leave me feeling nurtured rather than drained.

I went to St. Petersburg - St. Petersburg is awesome.

Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

History is littered with many, many talented young people who got a break damaged in the end by fame and other things when they were young and took it.

You call for faith: I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. The more of doubt, the stronger faith, I say, If faith o'ercomes doubt.

Forget 'branding' and 'positioning.' Once you understand customer behavior, everything else falls into place.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.