All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

Silence is so freaking loud

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

The deep of your maturity determines the height of your marriage.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

Someone once said to me, 'Are you telling me that chair isn't real, that it's only thought?' I said 'Of course the chair is real. But it comes to you via Thought

The happiest people are those who are contributing to society.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.