"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

"Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything."

"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."

"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"

"The test of character in leadership is how one behaves in moments of unvarnished power. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The moral compass points true only when freed from the magnetism of personal gain. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature."