"I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?"

"The future and eternity are two entirely different things."

"If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it."

"Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive."

"Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Every scar carries the quiet memory of a battle faced and survived. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Ethics is not a doctrine written in marble, but a daily standard lived in conscience. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."