The more I speak the more I make mistakes so. I speak less and listen more

A novel, though fiction, often speaks to the largest truths.

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Yes, I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft, but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

You can be all that you wish and desire to be.Take the challenge and pursue your most cherished dreams.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

Like a therapist hairdressers are in a position of trust. We are transforming not just how a person looks but how they feel.