We deserve this payment by all stretches of how one would calculate it.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.

Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

Keep strong if possible; in any case, keep cool.