There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.

Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.