When I remember my family I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

We live in grief for having left the womb for having left the teat then school then home. In my case it was leaving marriages and the death of my wife.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death leaving only what is truly important.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character would you slow down? Or speed up?

The only thing harder than leaving show business is coming back.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up leaving more territory more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there giving it their best.

Beauty is the disinterested one without which the ancient world refused to understand itself a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world a world of interests leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

I think my attitude to human beings has changed since leaving prison.

Besides the noble art of getting things done there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

I'm a teenager but I'm independent - I have my own apartment I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible leaving my family and coming here alone.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.