The image is an image..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

When I was 18 I already had a business going..

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

The key is to become aware of how you are signaling your presence in meetings, conversations, speeches - everywhere you show up. Then you can take ch….

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public..

I don't pull, I just receive..