Perhaps, the secret in reaching that ever eluding state of personal contentment, lies in finding the balance between not caring too much and not giving a damn.

If you truly love someone, you should be more interested in keeping them happy than in being right.

We've learned it's better to work together to create more possibilities for all, rather than cling to past prejudices.

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold, My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.

Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.

Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.

For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.