It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation.

Hypocrites, ’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

Many are called, few are chosen.

The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded death as merely a door to the eternal life.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Maybe what we really need is to change our relationship to what is, to see who we are with the strength of a generous spirit & a wise heart.

Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!

A wise and an understanding heart.

Truth always lags last limping along on the arm of Time.

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.