Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

We don't measure our people's success in how they're doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.

Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.

I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor.

Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.

You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.

The thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing.

There is nowhere to go. What you are looking for is right here. Open the fist clenched in wanting and see what you already hold in your hand

I believe that God has a plan, and it's your job to show up with an open heart.