How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.

I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.

For a moment the dark and fearsomely sad thoughts which inhabit her mind grow even sadder and darker

The successful person and the unsuccessful person are looking at the same world

A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

The cuckoos remain silent for a long time (for several seasons) until they are able to sing sweetly (in the Spring) so as to give joy to all.

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.