The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

What is wrong about me loving you, anyway? You make me better. You make me feel special. You make me feel like I can do anything.

I’d figured out that it wasn’t just about food and shelter. Obviously, that was important, butit was the people that I met, the people who made a difference, that kept me going.That made my world.

Put off the fire of pride and save your life from burning with flames of failure. Pride is the reason why many dreams only survive as ashes today. Learn the lesson

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

Getting that first knockout against Joe Riggs [in 2006] meant a lot to me then and still does today.

We have all the numbers we need to turn this system on its head.

Prayer is the life of the soul.

The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.