If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

I think editors are excellent marketers. They know their audience and produce copy to appeal to them - they just don't call it marketing.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motion-the earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egypt-both with the common motion and with their own.

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

This is really just a rental home for me here on earth, my true home is up in Heaven, and my hope lies in that. I'm here to live a good life and get as many people as I can to go to Heaven with me