It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

You are likely to lose the heat of your passion irrespective of how hot it was when you surrender yourself to a leader with lukewarm attitude.

The word of God is full of assurance.

The reality is that every single person is individual and special. There has never been and will never be another person on the Earth like you!

It is not the material which gives life form but the space between the material that gives life form.

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

In China, if they open the markets, it will force local companies to compete with international players, and the local companies will benefit in the long run.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.