Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.

The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.