Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.
Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
Most prisons have wide gates!
Journeys end in lovers' meeting. '. . . But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
So you've taken to spying on her. It must be love.
How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough?' But I proved them wrong.
Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world. . . from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.