I believe love opens people up.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

In order to faster become the person I wanted to, I decided to deceive my own dreams.

The time to market yourself is all of the time.

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh.

..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

I’m such a relationship guy. I really am.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.