“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.” 

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.” 

"So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life."

"It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life."

succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” 

"My greatest passion is my personal life."

"You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

"There is a man who would give his life to keep a life you love beside you."

"Trifles make the sum of life."

"Life is made of so many partings welded together"

"And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death."

“They spend half they lives worrying about what white folks think.” 

“We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.” 

“At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.” 

“We will not apologize for oour way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.” 

“Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet.” 

“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”

“Life Is Too Short to be Small”

“You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.”

“Life is too short to be little.”

“Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.”

"In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task."

"It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life."