You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

But SACRIFICE does not mean 'death' at all. It means MAKING HOLY

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.

Hydrogeology is not a simple discipline, .. It's full of variables that are always changing.

I want to help people, give hope to all. Humor is the foundation of our lives.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.