What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.
We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.
Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized. . . That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.
Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.
Everyone carries around his own monsters. ---Richard Pryor
Look around and find something for which to be grateful.
I don't have any expectations.
To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.