“You know, I sometimes think that the most effective people in the world are introverts who taught themselves how to be extroverts.”

“Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. ’Tis obvious that fighting is your skill.”

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”

“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”

“Believe people when they tell you who they are. They know themselves better than you.”

“The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.”

“Always know the shape you take—know it so well you can shift it to your purpose, so well the form gives way to formlessness again. What is a grain but a seed? And from a seed, you can grow anything. Like, say, a family.”

“Worry only about what you control. The rest is war.”