Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Humility is attentive patience.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Learn to give, whether you have plenty or little, whether you are happy or in pain.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.
Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the grooms.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.