The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine mist until it's just lonely particles floating in the air, waiting to be plastered in place. And what comes of it all, the design on the shirt at the end of the day, usually isn't much to see. I suspect that whoever he is, wakes up in the morning and wonders what he ever saw in it.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.