Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.

Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

When you mark where your self-doubt is, then you can begin to conquer it.

I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems.

I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

Motivation is a lotta crap.

But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of Americas finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.

They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

Neither our vices nor our virtues further the poem.