purpose Quotes

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

Time is the least thing we have of.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.