Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.
I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.
Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
I'm not as interested in what you make as I am in what you're passionate about. What business are you really in?
When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.
The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.
When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.
The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
