The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common.

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unnecessary.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.