[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Hands have their own language.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

When you begin to overlook the routine act of kindness given by a generous & caring soul, you unwittingly halt your blessings

Stop telling the truth about my record!

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrender myself to what encircles me, I have to merge with my clouds and rocks in order to be what I am.

Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!

I was married and divorced at 23.

We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.