The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

We are defined by the places we hold in the web of others’ lives.

The fact that we can never have complete, perfect knowledge does not absolve us of the moral duty to judge and to take a stand against evil.

We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed.

Do you see how much power you have when you act without fear?

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

A little self-doubt is a good thing, " said Jia, "but not excessive doubt. Sometimes we live up to the stories others tell about us.

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

I've always thought it nonsense to believe something true simply because it was written in a book long ago.

Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

There is often no line between perfection and evil.

Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.

What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.

How do you ask a woman to gargle your nuts?

I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.