People are amazingly beautiful not because of how they look

Every day you need to do something about your purpose of life

Hate is a parasite that will eat all compassion.

Words are air currents. You can float or go where every you want if you master the currents

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.

You look wise, pray correct that error.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

An interesting attribute of public banks is that they don't only de-risk the downside, but also get a share of the upside.