The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

Power's twin is responsibility.

From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Pain is a new room in your house.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Now is surely the best time to get started, because you can never procrastinate your way into the land of success.

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.

No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

At IMVU, we opened up our board meetings to the whole company.

The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.

I learned how to win by losing and not liking it.