Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I’m the only person who can’t understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they’re not that great. These are questions everyone has.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
Business is there if you go after it.
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody’s told you. It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one’s own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it.
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
I have a bit of supernatural take on life. For a moment, I went over to the other side. Since then, I can feel the presence of the departed. Im very sensitive to it.
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA-infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great – but must suffer the consequences!
To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.
Acting used to be how I paid the rent, but I sold a tequila company for a billion f**king dollars. I don’t need money.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘always do what you are afraid to do.’
Lilac anemone, paper petals, turning tentatively to face a pale sun opening to reveal a lightness of being, a flash of gold, a fresh resilience, contented silence, the dawn of a new day.
Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.
People who are capable of and fit for freedom liberate themselves from physical thralldom by substituting mind for muscle.
Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
The heart is forever inexperienced.
The difference between a good govt. system and its poor administration is easily explained; the chief administrators are not Bosses in the best sense.
