“Start small.Start now.Start everything.And dont bother to finish any of it.”

“And be grateful that youre a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but whats between her ears.”

“Lets end the notion that ideas have no value unless they turn into a business or have some other practical use. Save them all in a beautiful book like Leonardo did. You might want to give them away...”

“Since then Ive come to believe you dont always have to use things you love, and its not always so practical to be so practical. Now that Ive grown up, I realize that all that delicious dilettantism...”

“How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one important fact when we think love is enough: Love and respect aren't the same thing.Love is fusion. A...”

“You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks youre not good enoughbecause they cant understand who you are.”

“The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.”

“The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.”

“Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

“War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.”

“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.”

“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”

“However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.”