When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.
Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Freedom lies in being bold.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others