We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

I carry my flute around everywhere I go and pull it out. It actually becomes a panacea for me, for things that go on around me. It really gives me relief and calmness, tranquility.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

For heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, That man of man should ever stand in need.

I've been a minor celebrity since I was 23 years old.