You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
People should wake up in the morning and say 'I am not a job seeker, I am a job-creator.
I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.
All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.
All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed. . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where human history began. . . As civilization came we suppressed it. We became labor because they stamped us, ‘You are labor. ’ We forgot that we are entrepreneurs.
One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
I've been incredibly blessed.
Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.
Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem.