Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Well into adulthood, writing has never gotten easier. It still only ever begins badly, and there are no guarantees that this is not the day when the jig is finally up.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

We’re creatures of contact regardless of whether/ we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together.

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

I have managed to establish an identity that is based on my internal self, and for that I feel tremendously lucky.

Just think, the shoes I wouldn’t be caught dead in might actually turn out to be the shoes I am caught dead in.

Adventure is not outside man

I’ve never been one to go to church, but I’ve al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.

My journey, my life.My life can only be navigated by me.

The person of power uses their power to open up their mind to higher levels all the time, which creates tremendous happiness.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

We make allowance for necessity.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

Anything that gets children reading is fine.

From meetings and partings none can ever escape. Nor from magic.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.