Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.

Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

The bent but unbroken ones.

I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well.

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.

I found Him in the shining of the stars.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

Twitter is about creating whatever persona you want to create and either sticking with it or changing it or evolving it or contradicting it, and I've done all that stuff.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

You hold your future in your own hands. Never waver in this belief.