Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn’t be fair if you didn’t throw some punches back at it

A principle for writing, investing, and life in general: It is much easier to notice when something is working than to predict ahead of time if it will work. Take action, make many small bets,...

When we take life for granted, we’re assholes. Every day we wake up and the world’s still turning- that’s a great day.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don’t collect them.

What they’ve done is thoughtful, analytically sound and numerically cautious … but they haven’t put in the huge caveat about the range of uncertainty, … It’s so large that we can’t know if the problem...

I’d drive a thousand miles just to learn how to conserve gas and help save the environment. But that’s just who I am. I’m a thoughtful guy.

That’s the funny thing about life. We’re rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not...

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

I do not need your sympathy or condolence; if I am an atheist, there are reasons for that and those reasons are thoughtful, unselfish and conscious.

We’re better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs...

People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap! I promise you! It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to...

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you...

A happy soul in a happy body.

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I’ve ever gotten.

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...

When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but i laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but...

It’s a thoughtful recognition of the amount that taxpayers contribute to the wellbeing of the state.

There’s so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it’s so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you’re free to choose any...

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and...

You can go as far as your thoughts takes you.

Reflect your thoughts and watch others mirror them back to you.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

If you knew in advance that something momentous and terrible would happen you’d make an effort to imprint it all in your mind, wouldn’t you, every detail. But of course you don’t know. And perhaps...

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

When I think of you, I immediately think of someone else. That’s what I call love, and that’s why I never call you.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look...

Lead looked to his hand and saw sparkling chunks of glass in the cracks of the road. He saw ants running around the cracks, infinitely small. His blood ran into the cracks, creating rivers for...

To truly know what is good in life you must experience the bad as well.

Greatest quotes were not from the pencils of great men but from the the tablets of great minds who are willing to lead their minds on the journey of thought.

Time flies with you

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass….

Idols must never be touched: the gilt will come off on our hands.

There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.

I said I made a special trip to get her favorite item, because it sounded more romantic than saying I randomly had it already. Now that’s love.

Constance always said good people need to stand up and do what’s right, otherwise bad things will go unchallenged.

That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing; it was what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just...

Normalization takes place not because there is Western-ideology that normalizes third-world texts in any special way (other than the usual play with exoticism) but because this academic seeks to domesticate everything, even Marx.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year’s harvest.

What if all I’d ever known was how it had been for the past three years – me being an unwanted outsider in my own family?I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might...

The man was rude, crude, and inappropriate. I was taken with him the moment I walked in the door, and I knew the first moment I saw him that it was going to be raw,...

Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that...