"Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest."

-- John Lyly

“But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.”
“A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.”
“Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.”
“Americans have always evinced some distrust of government, but the current situation has exacerbated this to a degree that may be unprecedented.”
“Many of our actions degrade our habitat because we undertake them in order to reach goals whose allure blinds us to myriad dire consequences. In order to fuel our complex civilizations, we are lacing our planet's atmosphere with carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that, if it has not already begun doing so, will soon warm the Ice Age climate to which we owe our very existence.”
“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”
“I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.”

Source : "60 Minutes", www.cbsnews.com. August 9, 2017.
“My son, Max, was born the day Princess Di died.”

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