As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

If you haven't arrived yet, keep driving, your destiny is waiting for you.

Make sure people learn and grow from mistakes, and that they share that learning. But, don’t accept the same mistake twice. Only make new mistakes.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

I have no regrets. I believe you have to go through everything to grow and learn.

We don't fight about money... I hate to see people fight about money.

If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

The #1 business opportunity for those who want to create new wealth is educating consumers about products and services that will improve their lives.

I'm afraid that a certain situation drives me to be someone that I am not, and I always want to be honest and real. I want to be me.