Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Did you tell people that songs weren’t the same as a warm body, a soft mouth?

If God didn't mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Cats mean kittens, plentiful and frequent.

Listen more often than you speak.

The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.

Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

When it comes to starting startups, in many ways, it's easier to start a hard startup than an easy startup.

More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.