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.

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...

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:...

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...