I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

First make peace inside yourself.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.

Welcome any change that comes into any phase in your life; insist that it is going to turn out for the better - and it will. See the Angel of God in it, and the Angel of God will make all things new.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.