Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
The only way you improve is to try new things.
Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.
My father would always say "learn everything you can and whenever you can, because you never know when it'll come in handy. "
I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.
Success is one of the worst enemies of success, because success tends to breed complacency and lack of humility.
A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.
The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.
Because of my compact and muscular body composition, my short hair, and my "Johawk," I have been mistaken for a boy on many occasions. Each time it happens, it feels like I have been punched in the gut. It is extremely discouraging.
Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril. ’