You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Michael Bloomberg

I like people in the cities, in the States and in the Nation to ask themselves now and then: What can I do for my city? not How much can I get out of my city? I like people to speak now and then in the same devotion to State and Nation, because, after all, my countrymen, whenever a man contributes to the betterment of his community, whenever he contributes to the enlarged influence of his State, whenever he contributes to the greater glory of the Republic and makes it a better place in which to live and in which to invite men to participate and aspire, he contributes to himself as he contributes to the welfare of his fellow men.

Warren Harding

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.

Alexander Ludwig

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Thomas Carlyle

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Bruce Beresford

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Marc Andreessen

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

Stephen King

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald