Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.

A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, 'You don't pay for art, kid.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

Yes, I felt very small. The typewriter seemed larger than a piano, I was less than a molecule. What could I do? I drank more.-pg 237

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects.-pg 129

They grew

A Hero: A Moment When You’re Bigger Than Yourself.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources to create change – in whatever area of life.

Know the difference between famous and great.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.