sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

It’s not who you are. It’s part of who you are, but it’s not who you are. You’re so much more than just that, and I’m proud of you. All of you.” ~ Lucas’ Father

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where...

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Ask for the godly way,travel its path.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn’t sit quietly.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

…yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can’t make a difference.

The customer is always right…even when they’re wrong.

Young, animated, entirely off your guard, and thoughtless of consequences, Imagination took the reins; and Reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to the race of so eccentric and flighty a companion. How rapid was then...

My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you’ll remember; literature that matters.

The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.

We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish – but there was no...

Silence is a chameleon that is colored by its surrounding circumstances

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners …

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which...

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others’ disruptive breakthroughs.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

Stuff is not enough.

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men’s minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods...

Some blind faithfully; some see.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the...

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy...

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I...

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Live your best life.Live your dreams.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing”, said the Butterfly.

Such is the lot of the narcissist’s child, to inherit her parent’s umbrage over the world’s indifference.

An empty man is full of himself.

A free and open Internet is a despot’s worst enemy.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.” -Steve Jobs

It’s hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated,...

He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window — universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.