Survival often demands our courage.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.

I like old people when they have aged well.

I don't like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.

Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.