Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

Competition for status is a zero sum game

Live fuller life while you can still breathe.

As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful.

A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.

Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who's watching my movie.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps.