If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

What people resist is not change per se, but loss.

Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.

Handwriting enables civilization.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard.

All memories fashioned at the level of a child's eye were unreliable in scale.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Improvisational things about picture-making... learned from working with the small camera early on have served me well in being able to think quickly when making [portraits].

The tide tarrieth no man.

I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always up to me to prove my worth, that I deserved to be here.