Douglas Coupland

"Sometimes the smallest choices change everything."

"Your job is not your identity; you are more than what you do."

"The most important thing about teaching is that you make students want to learn."

"Everyone is wearing a mask; it's just a question of when to remove it."

"Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are."

"I've realized that the best way to predict the future is to write it."

"The 1990s were about speed and change; the 2000s are about depth and meaning."

"Creativity is the last refuge of the individual in an increasingly corporate world."

"We mistake our screens for windows into the world, when they're really mirrors."

"The most radical thing you can do today is tell the truth."

"Gratitude is the soil from which joy grows."

"Fear is just a story you haven't questioned yet."

"Success is what happens when you stop trying to be someone else."

"The world breaks everyone; afterwards, many are strong at the broken places."

"Patience is not about waiting; it's about maintaining hope while you do."

"Adventure is what happens when you say yes to things that scare you."

"Music is the only thing that makes sense when nothing else does."

"Nature doesn't rush, yet everything arrives on time."

"The greatest love stories never make it to the movies."

"Friendship is love with the stakes removed."

"Family is the price we pay for being human."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that lands in your heart uninvited."

"When you stop looking for what you want, you usually find what you need."

"Happiness is never final; neither is unhappiness."

"The difference between knowledge and wisdom is that knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict; it's the ability to live with it."

"Justice delayed is not justice; it's injustice with better PR."

"Literature is the only medium where you can completely inhabit someone else's mind."

"Science is just a way of asking questions that nature can answer."

"Faith is not about believing what you're told; it's about trusting what you don't understand."