I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything.
True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.
It takes courage to be the author of your life.
It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.
If you make the wrong decision, you make the wrong decision. That's all there is to it. There are few guarantees in life. One of them is that you will make lots of mistakes The worst thing you can do is wimp out and spend your life in suspended animation refusing to make a choice because it may not be a perfect one.
Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.
A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.
I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
All through history, there have always been movements where business was not just about the accumulation of proceeds but also for the public good.