Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.