The most important things in life aren't things.
It's one thing to be a fan and it's another thing to be a label.
Good things happen to those who hustle.
The first thing I've learned is to trust nobody.
Peace is the first thing the angels sang.
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991.
Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.
You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
A man who cannot tolerate small ills can never accomplish great things.
The main thing is that we can smile at our duties -- yes even at our suffering.
The horse may wish to do one thing, but he who saddles him another.
"Come see me" and "come live with me" are two different things.
[Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life i...
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.
Prioritization sounds like such a simple thing, but true prioritization starts with a very difficult question to answer, especially at a company with a portfolio approach: If you could only do one thing, what would it be? And you can't rationalize th...
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you...
Knowing this secret, being the only one chosen to know, makes me feel important in a way. But it’s a negative importance, it’s the importance of a blank sheet of paper. I can know because I don’t count. I feel singled out, but also bereft.
For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the as...
His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down to die at the end of every day, without thinking anything of it, was something he had not yet acquired.
Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.
