Dick Costolo

Not only can you not plan the impact you’re going to have, you often won’t recognize it when you’re having it.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

You are writing your children’s future with your answers.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman …

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.

I grew up in a very masculine environment. So I was around a lot of men, my brothers and their friends. There was just a lot of guys around.