If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER
My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.
Work is much more fun than fun.
As many as one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or abused in some other way - most often by someone she knows, including by her husband or another male family member.
Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.
I always thought my records were number one; it's just the charts didn't think so.
I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.