Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

I need physics more than friends.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I’m trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

If you’re living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

I don’t think there’s any point going for second or third.

‚Nation‘ was one that I’d have killed myself if I hadn’t written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

The Second Amendment is just as important as all the other Amendments.

As you know, low demand and high supply means a drop in value of anything, including the dollar.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

Money ain’t everything.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.