Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I have to be in tune. All the time. I have to be in tune with my husband, where he is, how he’s feeling. I have to be in tune with where my family is.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people’s faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about – or as a ritual like filling up a car – but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

To share the dressing room of club and country with Bhai was an amazing experience. I learnt a lot from him and other senior players like Renedy Singh.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one’s experiences in common.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

There is no sin except stupidity.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it’s about a lot more than being able to make money.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.