Too much apology doubles the offense.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Nothing important comes with instructions.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

Sophistication is upscale conformity.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

It is the empty seats that listen most raptly.

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

Stubbornness leads to strong will.

Systematic yoga and vipassana opens the "Dasham Duar" the mystical tenth spiritual gateway located at the top of the skull.

what we call things matters. ... The words we use, and how we perceive those words, reflect how we value, or devalue, people, places, and things.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.

Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

All complaining comes from pride.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

I had the feeling Edward wasn't the kind of person anyone got used to.

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.