If you personalize losses, you can't trade.
People like to do what they used to do after they've stopped being able to do it.
If you have no enemies, you have no character. Taking a stand always creates opposition.
Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest
The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.
A man can only be judged by his actions, and not by his good intentions or his beliefs
The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.
Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only 48 American battle casualties. What it has concealed from the public is that 206,000 veterans of that war filed claims with the VA for injuries and illnesses. In the years since that war, 8,300 veterans have died, and 160,000 claims for disability have been recognized by the VA.
New York, it's people. It's grit. It's diversity of people. It's diversity of industry. In L. A. everyone's looking over their shoulder because one of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills just walked in. They value the wrong things.