Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

Autonomy, adventure, imagination: entrepreneurshi p comprehends all this and more for us. The characteristic art form of our age may be the business plan.

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.

As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction!

I must have you. We must have each other. You know that, don't you? You'rein my blood, God help us both.

Give me a strong back, over a soft heart.

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.

Parents should never have to bury their own children.

I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected

Firmness is great; persistency is greater.