I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.

Hemingway's talent was so outsized, that I feel like I can forgive him a lot of his trespasses to have achieved what he did achieve.

The Self-confidence of the ignorant is one of the biggest disasters of the humanity!

Good managers don't set a goal to increase efficiency, but rather an implementation of business process improvements that result in higher efficiency as well.

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.

If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.