It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

Actually, I didn't start sweating until I had children.

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.