You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Rich people were not rich if there were no poor.

Basically, everyone thinks -- knows -- how sweet I am. Emma, you threw my sister through hurricane-proof glass.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government...

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.

...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of...

The existence of insignificant people has very important consequences in the world. It can be shown to affect the price of bread and the rate of wages, to call forth many evil tempers from the selfish...

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is...

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. 'Mythomania' is the word for it.

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits.

People are too complicated to have simple labels.

Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those...

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous...

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting...