Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Wonder begets culture, which begets yet more wonder, and the end of wonder is wisdom, which is the state of perpetual wonder.

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe.

Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.

I used to measure myself against other people, but I always came up short. Now, I try to figure out what I really want, and measure myself against that.

I started reading about people of great accomplishment … and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief.

It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.

My manager said, "Don't use liquor as a crutch!" I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk.

I'm in a wild mood tonight. I want to go dance in the foam. I hear the banshees calling.