My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.

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.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The world hates the truth and all that share it, and so if you share truth eventually you will be hated by the world if you are not ready.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.

Oh, that we fully understood how very opposite our self-righteousness is to the designs of God!

You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.

Whatever befalls in accordance with nature should be accounted good.

I cannot dance, O Lord, unless You lead me.

Rich people are committed to enough to do whatever it takes. Period.