One of the large consolations for experiencing anything unpleasant is the knowledge that one can communicate it.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you’ll rebuild your life in a few short years.

God believes in the reality of your dreams, and so do I. But the question is, do you strongly believe in your abilities?

Serving others means being willing to make sacrifices for their good.

It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.

Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

When we are weak, then are we strong. When most empty of self, we are most full of God.

There is a lot of waste in government-run programs generally, and a lot of waste and fraud and misuse of money in Medicare and Medicaid that can be saved.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.