No day is safe from news of you.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

You are a child of God. You are blessed.

He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything.

There is something to be said about the sense of accomplishment the reader feels when finishing a book in one sitting.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you.

You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying.

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.