When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.

Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.