It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

I'm a purist: I start to wrinkle my nose when the Cold War ends.

I'm necessarily parasitic in a way. I have done well as a parasite. But I'm still a parasite.

No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.

Why are man hole covers around?" If you don't knwo the answer to the questions, you're not smart enough to work at microsoft