A key to the art of conversation is learning how to be an effective and active listener.

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring–not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason...

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban’s enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban’s fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others’ disruptive breakthroughs.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge

Stuff is not enough.

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men’s minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods...

Some blind faithfully; some see.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the...

Silence is a chameleon that is colored by its surrounding circumstances

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners …

She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which...

If you don’t know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Live your best life.Live your dreams.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Don’t be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing”, said the Butterfly.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy...

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I...

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better.” -Steve Jobs

It’s hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.

Such is the lot of the narcissist’s child, to inherit her parent’s umbrage over the world’s indifference.

An empty man is full of himself.

A free and open Internet is a despot’s worst enemy.

Whether driven by ambition or circumstance, every career gets disrupted.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

Memory, instead of being a duplicate, always present before one’s eyes, of the various events of one’s life, is rather a void from which at odd moments a chance resemblance enables ones to resuscitate dead...

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom...

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Chance favors the connected mind.

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated,...

He twirled a finger, the universal symbol for roll down your window — universal despite the fact that no one had manually rolled down a window in twenty years.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.

Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed...

The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.

In America, where surface has always passed for substance, people always believe guys like Frank Dunning.

the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!

The more a man judges, the less he loves

Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.

Greed, however it manifests itself, is always ugly.

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best