"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
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"Coaching 101: First you build the team, and then you build the torture chamber for underperformers."
"There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."
"Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea."
"We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day."
"Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written."
"No man is ever just one thing."
"There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections."
"Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos."
"His shelf. Good. Noodle dust. Decaying brain collecting dust. Must insert it back in skull—what was I thinking?"
"In my heart's most secret place,I pity them as angels do."
"Boredom: the desire for desires."
"If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship."
"Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other."
"Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done"
"I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success."
"Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy."
"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."
"À l'aurore, armés d'une ardente patience, nous entrerons aux splendides Villes. (In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid Cities.)"
"The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards."
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