If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

I didn't want to do it, ' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.

Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.

Destiny has got the rope round my neck – and I feel it.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.

The requirement of conspicuous wastefulness is... present as a constraining norm selectively shaping and sustaining our sense of what is beautiful.