Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Beautify your inner dialogue and it'll open the doorway to creativity

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.

I was in a crazy, private, awesome bubble again, and that's when I started to write.

Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization.

Sometimes I think that all mankind exist but to be bought and sold: The rich man's paramour is gold, the poor man's goddess, gold, gold, gold.

Thought tends to collect in pools.