Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Life well spent is long.
Our life is made by the death of others.
At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay, whether it provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income or in terms of an enhanced quality of life.
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52.
I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.