Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. |

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. |

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. |

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. |

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. |

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. |

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. |

Minds are simply what brains do. |

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets. |

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. |

The reason most kids don't like school is not that the work is too hard, but that it is utterly boring. |

The goal is to teach in such a way as to produce the most learning from the least teaching. |

The scandal of education is that every time you teach something, you deprive a [student] of the pleasure and benefit of discovery. |

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. |

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. |

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. |

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. |

Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. |

Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload. |

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. |

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness.
Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could. |

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape. |

The most common user action on a website is to flee. |

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. |