life

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

"I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you."

"You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is."

"Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you."

"To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of zero. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go."

"Progress just means bad things happen faster."

"Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it."

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

"The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps."

"Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places."

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

"Anything disguised as anything is chameleon. A ghost disguised as an unobservable and invisible object is a great example. Still, that’s easier to see than the love my ex wife had for me."

"I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters."

"It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes."

"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."

"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"I type on my keyboard like I’m Beethoven on the piano. My words may be silent in the air, but they ring as music in my mind while I write."