There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve.

There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.

How true is the saying that man was forced to invent work in order to escape the strain of having to think.

I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.

A champion shows who he is by what he does.

I've been within an inch of my life.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

We shall not benefit from reading the Old Testament unless we look for and meditate on the glory of Christ in its pages.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you - in places where winning means survival and defeat means death - and that man is John McCain