All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.

The world was hers for the reading.

There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and think critically. Intelligence plus character

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.

Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them.

Now comes the mystery.

I don't do any Class A - especially not cocaine - after seeing what it does to people.

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

When you are a startup you need to hire very fast, and sometimes you have to restructure very fast.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.