Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?

Desperation works in job search as well as it does in dating.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]

I can take a week's vacation - maybe a week and a half - but after that, I'm itching to go back to work.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day you will not be safe.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

He smiled, and it lit up his whole face.

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.