Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

Love without sacrifice is like theft

What I learned on my own I still remember

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

To bankrupt a fool, give him information.

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Those who do not think that employment is systemic slavery are either blind or employed.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

What organized dating sites fail to understand is that the people are far more interesting in what they don't say about themselves.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

Many consult their reputation

Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies.

I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.

I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over

There are writers I return to no matter what I'm working on, writers like the South African J.M. Coetzee. He has an ability to make you feel that he is writing for you alone.

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home.

We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.