One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

I'm surprised I could actually talk with how much I was grinning.

If you want the truth about being different, all you have to do is look in the mirror.

Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.

It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.