What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

In the best day.

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

I hate the idea of repeating myself. I need new perspectives and challenges for each project, and I'm very happy that many people are able to follow me without any problem.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

Oh it's fantastic because I get to whip people like David into shape and tell them to go get me coffee. Kidding - okay.

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

I think Nine Inch Nails was a really big one for me, when I was 18. They really inspired me to start making my own music.

Writing is the hardest work in the world not involving heavy lifting.

After youve been married quite a few years, you learn to take orders; it just comes easy.