Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.

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My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind.

Shia LaBeouf

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Erich Fromm

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Stephen Collins

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

Marilu Henner

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

Oscar Wilde

Why would I spend my time writing software in a language below the grade of love, if I can use one that makes my brain sing?

David Heinemeier Hansson

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.

Earl Warren

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.

Jane Pauley

As soon as you begin to believe in something, then you can no longer see anything else. The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No E