It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

Everything has its poetry. 94

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

It all starts with you, and that which never starts, also finishes with you.

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

If you eagerly search, you will find what you seek.

I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

If you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average person and be exceptional.

One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.

Wherever arms flow, violence follows. Bullets replace ballots as the solution to political disputes.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.