Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who says something that you won't understand until 10 years later.

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound is the paint.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.

Be Grateful- Your Life is a Miracle.

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

Nature eventually has her own way, so perhaps the best procedure is to accept what old Mother Nature or God, if you will, dictates. Accept it and you'll get along better.

Don't talk - keep it in your heart.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.