The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time. ' That's what writing is all about.
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.
live your life as if you may lose everything.
Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.
No company has a culture, every company is a culture
When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction.
The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.