It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move.

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.