Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
I don't believe in anything you have to believe in.
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
