I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Snow floated down every once in a while, but it was frail snow, like a memory fading into the distance.

Right understanding is that which finds happiness in the state of unhappiness.

When a person exudes passion, it is evident that they love what they are doing. Their passion projects an aura of confidence and decisiveness.

If you must chase make certain its with passion so you may reap a worthy reward.

Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

I am an analyst; my job is to analyze.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.