The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

If safety is my goal, living life is not.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

You do not have to have the best of everything to make the best of everything.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

cleverness is a disease.

Nothing has changed in Russia since Ivan the Terrible when it comes to the divide between the people and the state. The state demands a sacred willingness to make sacrifices from the people.