[S]he leans into this guy and rocks her head like I’m making this music for her, when if I could, I would take it all away and give her as much silence as she’s given me pain.

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.

When the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

Are you living your dreams?

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

Man must look after man sicne no god watches out for us.

I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.

The future of Japan's economic growth depends on us having the willpower and the courage to sail without hesitation onto the rough seas of global competition.