"I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars."

“The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.”

“Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't,”

“I couldn't have asked for a better acting partner and a better human being to work with. We have to work very closely together, and I felt, in our screen test, that we had really good chemistry, but I wasn't sure if I was just making that up. Max has written a really finely wrought bromance. I have complete trust in Elijah [Wood].”

“I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.”

Source : "Rob Kardashian Sock Business To Launch Soon" by Jo Piazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 15, 2011.

“Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”