The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

It's the deep breath before the plunge.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!

days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too."_Eric Packer

Pictures all around, of how good a life should be, a model for the rest, that bred insecurity, I walked a jagged line and then came back for more, it's always in my mind, an institution with no law.

A man and his dog goes so well with home and castle.

I don't see it happening unless every NBA player is given a stipend to buy clothes.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.