Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.

That's why the smartest companies use Common Lisp, but lie about it so all their competitors think Lisp is slow and C++ is fast.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

Being an athlete, you know how to train and prepare your body for a performance and you're able to do it under pressure.

For every way someone can be lost, we want to provide a practical way for them to be found in the very place they have ended up.

Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear.

I think everyone has the ability to be loved.

Personally, I now aim for one month of overseas relocation or high-intensity learning (tango, fighting, whatever) for every two months of work projects.