As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.
A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.
And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice.
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.
I grow old learning something new every day.
One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options.
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
We need to put in place an economic system of governance for the euro-zone.
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
