If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

We have 200, 000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.

Somehow I find the energy to continue the run. Part of the high that comes after finishing a long run is overcoming the wall, that point when your body crashes but your mind keeps moving you forward.

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

It may sound corny, but what's wrong with wanting to fight for your country. Why are people reluctant to use the word patriotism?

I was writing poetry, and the Mountain Goats was an outgrowth of that.

We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action.

The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.