People can't relate to someone who only talks about their successes.

I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.

Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.

Wealth can only be multiplied through work

Alone. The saddest word in the world.

Somehow you drift along on the river, and one day you wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want to be, with someone you realize you don’t know.

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

But even our pleasures are calculated and business like. We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. Our salons are often little better than bazaars of fashion.

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.