Literature is a force that can change the world.
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
The most successful auctions are those where bidders trust the process.
True leadership means listening—especially to those who disagree with you.
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an downtown street: you need to be hydrated, you need food, and you need shelter.