While the heart beats, hope lingers.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

And all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.

Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.

Your future is uncertain, and I can tell you nothing that can help you. You are singular and dangerous, and so it is that you are sought by both the Dark and the Light.

Not even I can see all ends, but I have been in this world long enough to know that a choice is not choice and breeds slow ills, even were it done for the highest reasons.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

I shall never complain of the tedium of the city again.

Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you.

Light blooms the brighter in the darkest places.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

You have to make people realize your worth, else no one cares!

I was always a junk food person, still am.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

Countries are not like financial markets. Social change cannot be executed as swiftly as credit-default swaps. You cannot sell short on social commitments and practical responsibilities.

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.