We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it is guaranteed.
Even in a comedy, you have to make people feel. You have to put your hand inside their soul and twist out their heart.
We have given most of Europe to Hitler. Let us try to hold on to what we have got left.
I like to be loved or hated - I don't like mediocre. So I'd rather have the entire crowd hate me than to have 90% hate me.
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
At Sequoia, we have opened offices in China and India, and we have made a handful of investments in Latin America/Brazil.
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
Being related to a person doesn't necessarily mean you have to be family and being family doesn't necessarily mean you have to be related.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.
You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.
I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
We know the value of a blessing when we don't have it. But we only know the value of knowledge when we have enough of it.
The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.
You get in trouble, you have to evaluate: Is it worth getting into trouble again? It's a lot easier to make that decision when you have a career at stake.
Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.
