The irrevocable events of our lives happen in seconds, sometimes fractions of seconds.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

My whole desire is to burn myself away.

I want to have a romance so grand, it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort.

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.

To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.