Adams had gone to Harvard, Jefferson to William and Mary. Washington had gone to war.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

The divine thoughts comes from God, we are only vessel for its transmission.

Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

Let us be kinder to one another.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You're either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice.