From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Albert Bandura

Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism.

Jeb Bush

Every person I work with knows something better than me. My job is to listen long enough to find it and use it.

Jack Nichols

Speedy exception is the mother of good fortune.

Proverb

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

Source Unknown

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Jim Rohn

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body.

Nenia Campbell

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

O. Henry Porter

He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

James Thurber

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Jerry Saltz