Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

So now i know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'de rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or someone i can't predict.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

He'd turned away from a life on basic to live in the stars, or if not the stars, at least the rocks that floated free in the night sky.

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.

Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.

I have a real no-nonsense dad who taught me how to be resilient at a very young age.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.