Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.

Brave old world.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.

Is there any escaping the junkshop of the self?

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

If you believe in what you do for tomorrow then today you will get your hands dirty ....

It is possible to rise above any adversity.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is the further he will go astray.

The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

The difference between FEELING yourself in action, here and now, and visualizing yourself in action, as though you were on a motion-picture screen, is the difference between success and failure.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.