Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt.Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in theuniverse, except that everyone else is still here.

You are hatching from the past.

The love of aman is like a drop of color into something clear.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

It is of course dangerous to set off an explosive device on a spacecraft.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

I believe it is important for people to create a healthy mental environment in which to accomplish daily tasks.

Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Airpower has become predominant, both as a deterrent to war, and-in the eventuality of war-as the devastating force to destroy an enemy's potential and fatally undermine his will to wage war.

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

One man's bane is another's bliss.

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.