You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

Help them, but don't make friends with them.

I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.

One must always forgive another's passion.

I've always admired people who give accurate directions, and the tribe is small.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are.

I was born in the age of "alas".

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life.”Patricia Briggs.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

There is no greater disaster than discontent.

I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.