To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

The older you get, the more voices you get in the back of your head.

Voters might have short memories. Politicians do not.

We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.

What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.

...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.

Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.

I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

Advertising always corrupts the goal of the search engine, which is to try to give you the most important stuff, not the stuff someone paid there to be there.

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.