Any Quotes

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.