The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
The rise and fall of civilizations in the long, broad course of history can be seen to have been largely a function of the integrity and cogency of their supporting canons of myth; for not authority but aspiration is the motivator, builder, and transformer of civilization.
When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons, but it may also make important persons of fools.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.
When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.
If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
The True Person avoids extremes, self-indulgence, and extravagance.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.