Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Do not settle for labels that presume you will never heal. Believe in yourself. Find a tribe who understands and believes in you too. Don't ever give up.

By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.

If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

The greatest lesson that I learned in all of this is that you have to start. Start now, start here, and start small. Keep it Simple.

I will persist until I succeed!

Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.