Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Life is spiritual light.

The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

As policy makers, our interest isn't necessarily the narrow interests of specific corporations but the national security interests of the United States.

Great individuals make great successes out of failure.

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.