[T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

You need to get out of your nest in order to fly.

It is vital that we are equipped with the humility to understand that changing the world and keeping innovation alive require that we change ourselves.

Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.

The main social responsibility for a company is to win.

Everything gets better with time, and time is forever.

Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

More is required than a common last name to truly be called a family.