The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.
Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Never economize on luxuries.
There are few pleasures like really burrowing one's nose into sweet peas.
First love is an astounding experience and if the object happens to be totally unworthy and love not really love at all, it makes little difference to the intensity of the pain.
It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.
Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires.
We are being spoilt in Aladdin's cave today, and each goal seemingly better than the last.
It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.
I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something. Otherwise, you will never get anywhere.