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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.
How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.
Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?
Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.
Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.
We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.
Wise people listen to wise instruction, especially instruction from the Word of God.
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.
Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.
Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.
Margaret Thatcher was as viscerally hated at home as she was warmly respected abroad.
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of control.
Cessation of struggle is like free falling through space without a care in the world.
People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.
To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.
You don’t need to get anyone else to agree with your truth. You just need to live it.
Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.
I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.