How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

If I could be half the person my dog is, I'd be twice the human I am.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I don't know how, or whether it is even possible to predict what the world will look like the next day. I simply have to close my eyes, and wait until tomorrow in order to find out.

At some point in your life, this statement will be true: tomorrow you will lose everything forever.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Is there any holy beings like human beings?

...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

A single wire hanger on a nail by itselfIsn't bad though a stack of them on a floorIs too gloomy for words.

I have played on many teams throughout my career, and I know when a team has the tools, and the right positive attitude towards winning.

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.