You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.

Your perspectives change your realities.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

Great art can only be created out of love.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal.

To triple the growth of your organization, triple the growth of your people.