What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.

Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion!

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

I would have had fun doing just about anything.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.