Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

We have all experience times of despair and fear. But it is better to live with hope and faith.

The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

I believe I have an important message and we are fighting the same fight, which is the fight for freedom in Australia, in Holland and in Europe.

Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.

‎People who talk less frequently notice more.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.