It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me I could shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.

We speak the love language, they speak from pain and anguish. Some don't love theyselves, so they perception is tainted.