The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.

How would you rather die?" she snapped. "Hiding under your bed or riding Thunder Mountain?

My brother and I have matching tattoos on our arms. It says, 'Humility is strength, ' in Portuguese and Italian, because my genius brother taught English in both Italy and Brazil.

Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.

I'm not sure Roosevelt was quite a monster, he just did a poor job on the economics.

In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

[Wendy Davis is] ruled by a demon of murder.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates

I would love to put out music that was just stunning or soul-baring or whatever. But I don't think I have the voice for it.