Given that life is so short, do I really want to spend one-ninetieth of my remaining days on earth reading Edward Gibbon?

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

If your eyes could speak, what would they say?

There were many reasons we broke up. There was a religious difference: I'm a Catholic, and she's the devil.

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

Myth is, after all, the neverending story.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Capital which overreaches for profits; labor which overreaches for wages, or a public which overreaches for bargains will all destroy such other. There is no salvation for us on that road.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Of course! Jeb Bush! America is hungry for another leader from that talented family!