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.

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that...

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, “Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness”; and the absence of this in the character of Marcius made all his...

The phone rang. It was a familiar voice.It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O’Neill had tried to stay in touch with people who had served under Gerald Ford, and he’d been reasonably conscientious about it. Alan...

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche – effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole...

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

I have an iron deficiency. You can tell by how wrinkled my clothes are.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

I told her that I can’t be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake… I’ve never liked wedding cake due to the amount...

…the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none”.

‎The stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.

Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Vision attained through mindful thinking, imagination and purpose reveals both the forest and the trees – as well as a path forward.

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?””No sir.””That bothers me.

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person’s life was changed forever.

At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he’d ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it...

There’s some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall...

Crazy by definition isKnowing that true sanity isA figment of the educated mind

A loner by nature and an introvert… i am a twinkling star, burning bright amidst a cloudless night. As such, i tend to fade in and out of people’s lives. This aspect of me is...

The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in but what was worn and hackneyed out of all sense and meaning

It’s not who you are. It’s part of who you are, but it’s not who you are. You’re so much more than just that, and I’m proud of you. All of you.” ~ Lucas’ Father

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where...

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

Data has no ego and makes an excellent co-pilot.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Ask for the godly way,travel its path.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn’t sit quietly.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

…yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

No obstacle is so big that one person with determination can’t make a difference.