One of the greatest keys to happiness is learning how to accept reality while stretching forth to create a new one.

The deeper the journey into inner space, the further the possibilities in outer space.

Be careful how you treat those who you perceive to be below you. The universe has a way of favoring the underdog.

Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.

When good things are on the horizon you keep walking towards the sun.

Life can't be rushed. It takes time to develop the wrinkles of wisdom.

Be patient with those who can't see your vision, because sometimes it takes time for eyes to adjust to the light.

Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it.

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it,

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Tears were frozen to the book theif's face.

... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred With maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.

We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.

How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.