War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.
If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky
Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.
nothing can wear you out like caring about people
You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!
A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.
The library is my cathedral.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.