Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. |

The problem with reading: you always have to pick up again at the very thing that made you stop reading the day before. |

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. |

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. |

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud. |

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe. |

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. |

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. |

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time. |

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. |

There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair. |

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.

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In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. |

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. |

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. |

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface, but connected in the deep. |

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. |

He who reads much and walks much, goes far and knows much. |

There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it. |

The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water. |

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. |

The cost of changing things afterward is much higher than the cost of better preparation. |

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.' |

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. |