Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good

If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

My age, my inclinations, are no longer what they were.

The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand.

Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.