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I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp&; D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

I have reservations about everything I do.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

I'm afraid of making a mistake. I'm not totally neurotic, but I'm pretty neurotic about it. I'm as close to totally neurotic as you can get without being totally neurotic.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of how tough life is and about the indomitable spirit that the Aboriginal people have always possessed.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Look, I am not worried about Washington cutting too much spending too fast. I mean, the kinds of spending cuts we're talking about just right now are $100 billion out of a $3.7 trillion budget.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.