I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.

I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.

However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

I don't actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn't true it can't be love.

History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.

Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their followers. They make impacts.

Talent is that which is in a man's power genius is that in whose power a man is.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.

The conduct of schools, based upon a new order of conception, is so much more difficult than is the management of schools which walk the beaten path.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.