Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.

He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

We spent our lives making livings.

Think of what is pure.

music heard so deeplyThat it is not heard at all, butyou are the musicWhile the music lasts.

Every second you think meaningless, makes your minutes less productive and take you hours behind

I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some people can tempt one to pick up a shovel and actually put that to the test.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Once a year ask the boss, "What do I or my people do that helps you to do your job?" and "What do I or my people do that hampers you?"