"Life is a party. Dress for it."

“It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 [racecar] driver.”

“Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph Hitler. Because storytelling is a form of persuasive jujitsu, and because world is full of black belt storytellers, the corporate leader has to train both his offensive and defensive moves”

“Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.”

“Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.”

“Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.”

“Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.”

Source : "'People in the west live squeezed together, frenzied as wasps in the nest'". Interview with John Vidal, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2014.

“A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his times-the niceties of which (so complicated, so exquisitely intertwined) Max articulates with, well, Wallace-like lucidity and wit. Above all this is the story of a touching young man who insisted on being something better than simply the smartest person in the room.”