Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
Abraham Lincoln was the father of a nation and had enormous beliefs that stood well.
No matter how important we all think we are as individuals, when it comes down to it, we're not that important. At times we better recognize that. That life goes on, thank goodness. That we better recognize our role in society.
There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.
I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.
I do sense that the financial system is under the gun. In order to keep our system and economies moving globally, there's the need to extend new money.
I think it's very difficult in the first go-round for congressional people and political people to understand the linkages that exist between us and the rest of the world. That we're not insular anymore.
The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure.
And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values, four hundred years, five hundred years ago.
The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years.
Nothing has to happen immediately, this minute, or right now. It's okay to pause for just a moment. Just take a breath. Then go quietly inside. Ask life itself to lead you to your best outcome. There's nothing you have to do, really, except get out of your own way.