What's good about growth? Why is it intrinsically good?

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

The best gift that you could ever give to yourself is unconditional self-love. Life without it is an empty existence.

A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

It is my view that we cannot conduct foreign policy at the extremes.

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .