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“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.”

“It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.”

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.”

“Old age is the verdict of life.”

“Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we're wrong. Someone we trust.”

“We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”

“The Black Man's Future in the Southern States", speech at Cooper Union, New York (5 February 1862)”

“Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.”

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.”

“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”

“Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.”

“It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.”

“I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.”

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

“Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.”

“My wife has a good sense of humor, and instead of calling me psychic with my novels, she simply refers to me as being 'psycho.' That's because multiple things in my books have come true.”

“Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.”

“Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.”

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”

“I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.”

“Sera parsimonia in fundo est.”

“I go — as others already crucified have gone. And think not we are weary of crucifixion. For we must be crucified by larger and yet larger men, between greater earths and greater heavens.”

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”

“Idleness is only fatal to the mediocre.”