I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances. . . street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.
What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty. . . This is my highest and best use as a human.
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.