Empathy comes from being empathized with.

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

My boy, many people know many things. But the things we think we know of others can only become what is known if the others choose to do the doing of making what we think we know known.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

No matter what your work today, if it is worth while at all - time to plan it out, time to do it well, and time to finish it, is your day's greatest gift and your greatest job.

Important part of our diplomacy is that people take our words seriously.

My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.

Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.