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"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."

"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

"Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million..."

"My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job."

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

"I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge."

"If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet."

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

"Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops."

"If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid."

"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character"

"Platonic love is love from the neck up."

"I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love."

"This isn't just a legal compliance issue for us. We consider the privacy issue to be an opportunity to reinforce our brand image."

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."