Sleep is an unfortunate biological requirement that both wastes time and leaves one vulnerable.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

And today is really the happiest day of your life, because today you woke up and stumbled across the shadow of your soul in broad daylight."From Central Park Song: a Screenplay

It is privilege of living to be ... acutely agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.

Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for the purpose of progress.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.