The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture.

The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of...

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

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.

Good design is good business.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And...

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.

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.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

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...

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become...

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.