No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

By getting to know you I get to know myself too.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

He who is affected by an insult is infected by it.

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

I think we need to embrace feminism, we need to embrace all of the gifts women bring to the workplace.

Marinate in your own being, grow in your wisdom, mature in understanding, be firm in your conviction, be strong in your Self.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

But you finally think, there is what there is, and you have to work within those confines and just keep chipping away at your own work.