The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

Stop running after the waves. Let the sea come to you.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to life, old ones need to wither away.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

Personally, I didn't think there was anything wrong with sadness. Just the opposite – hypocrisy made people happy and truth made them sad.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

People love their hells because they keep them!

Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions.

If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

Follow your heart and be true to yourself. Never live the life of another. You have to create your own road.

Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.

Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around.