Lowell’s best friend was the heroically moustached art director of a tobacco magazine that published in the same building where Lowell worked at plumbing. His name was Harry Balmer, and despite the evidence of his...

the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die

One must not permit oneself excesses, except with persons whom one wishes soon to leave.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself.

We are God’s middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Success doesn’t teach as many lessons as failure

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears.

Because sometimes when someone is telling you something really important, it’s best to just let there be silence, to really think about what they’re saying. A lot of times people think they have to say...

Greed and corruption isn’t in the world.It’s in the people”.

Leave your excuses and live your dreams!

Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has...

Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

I reckon if you care for someone and you can’t have their love, you can either be a spiteful bastard about it or you can try your damnedest to make sure they’re going to find...

…there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:”He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is...

You never know who it’s going to be, or what they’ll bring, but whatever it is, it’s always exactly what is needed.

And so, when she heard if Hare Krishnas, she didn’t hear right. She heard “Hairless Christians”, and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her in...

Magic,” her mother said, “is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.

Everyone’s perception is different; we all see different things. I personally think you see what you want to see.

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

You only lose what you cling to.

Louie found the raft offered an unlikely intellectual refuge. He had never recognized how noisy the civilized world was. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the...

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,’ I said. ‘By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn’t true. The world is only broken into two tribes:...

In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It’s jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off...

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn’t know how to handle.

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn’t like it, and changed.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur’s motto. When you finally find the one idea that can’t be killed, go with it.

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don’t have a space program, it’ll serve us right!

God lures us into marriage through love and sex and loneliness, or simply the fact that someone finally paid attention – all those reasons that you got married in the first place. It doesn’t really...

I knew everything! Yet, I’m still not perfect.

Louis was often struck by Gage’s speech, not because it was cute, but because he thought that small children all sounded like immigrants learning a foreign language in some helter-skelter but fairly amiable way. He...

As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary France. That was just a veneer, an illusion. Rather, it was our desperate...

The ChairI’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chairlook like a throne while you sat on it.Amidst your absence, I choose to sit on the floor,which is dusty as a dry Kansas day.I...

Disruptors don’t have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

You will have more regrets for the things you didn’t try than the ones you tried and didn’t succeed at.

…This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held in contempt by most of your kind here because you have no sorcery…...

It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow.””Ah…quite. You are a man of acute insight.””That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.

When you deserved it, even the mail could rape you.

Love is about filling up the space, not making more holes.

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment…’dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady...

Denial does not change reality for everyone else. Only for the one denying and those who are foolish enough to believe the fantasy.

Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

If life, you get what you believe you deserve.

It’s only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent...

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Life is not about how long you live or how much you experience. Life is about how you choose to live it and what you experience.