We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [. . . ] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Value those colleagues who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
Enthusiasm is a heightened state of consciousness, and it's one of the best feelings there is to feel.