There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.