The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing if not carcinogenic.

What is important is that we actively express our thoughts and wishes, in every realm that we can access.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Find people not to envy but to admire. Do not the profitable but the admirable deed. Live by ideals.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

I wish she was dead,' he says. 'I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades