We need to have more taxes, not less, and we need the taxes we have, certainly, to provide services - for defense and education and health care. We should not cut money here in order to cut taxes.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Turn your self-hell into self-help.

Pride leads to down fall o f man.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

It will work out, somehow. That's a hell of a duo right there, Marbury, Crawford and Houston.

I aim to have meaningful, honest interactions with people and be open to their uniqueness.

You shouldn't use anything as the sole source for anything, in my view.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.