I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human.
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.
Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness. . . Love will never die.
I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my very earliest memories were in an orphanage. It was the tag end of the Great Depression when I was born. People were desperately poor.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.
An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.
There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.