One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

What words are in you that can change the world?

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.

The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

Sometimes it's hard to face your own...life.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

The trouble with having a body is that people know it's where you hang out and you don't get any privacy.

Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.