If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.

[W]hat makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

..., dying seems like the greatest weakness, and in a world where people say you're lazy for not shaving your legs, then being dead seems like the ultimate character flaw. Chapter I.

Real management is developing people through work.

When the student has her voice under complete control, it is safe to take up the lyric repertoire of Mendelssohn, Old English Songs, etc. How simple and charming they are!

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

I didn't really like doing commercials.

I speak up for myself. I claim my power now.

Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.