If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

I don't want to die without any scars.

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom

True self confidence happens when you stop blaming others for not seeing what you love about yourself. Not everyone has the same list of needs.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

They make solitude, which they call peace.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!