I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
The future ain't what it used to be.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!
We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
Genius is sorrow's child.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
