Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

Time had changed the magical to mundane

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Once upon a time it took many years of hard work to establish a winning business, but today that time scale has been cut down to months … not years.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Greed can be very dangerous because you sacrifice your soul for the sake of something material, and then you start sacrificing people in order to keep that which is material.

Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

At the end of the day, the team you build is the company you build.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.