There’s no amount of money that frees you from being a person.[to Bobby]
The vultures and the hyenas always share the carcass meal.
The thought that someone might know you need help is worse than not getting the help you need.
The more reliable rule of the world is: The aggressor always moves forward the science first.
The kamikaze get a bad name because everyone wants to focus on the suicide. But what they miss out on is the purity of the commitment.
The best education, though, is living it. Don’t imagine what it’s like to run two billion. Or five. Or ten. Just f***ing run it.[to John]
That’s the wonderful thing about family. It lives and breathes. It never contracts. Only expands.
That’s the problem with the real world, real people. We’re not computers with the software directing the hardware. We’re not rational actors.
Sometimes you just gotta trust people to be who they are.
Sometimes staying too long is a bigger risk than leaving too soon. There’s never a right time to make a big change.
Something I learned from the old Westerns: If you’re gonna make a show of strength, you wanna be sure you’re the real strongman in the room.
Perfect people don’t exist. But flawed people, who have taken a walk through their own wounded psyche, reforged themselves and come out stronger? We’re the great hope for the species.
