Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Thomas Carlyle

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.

Benito Mussolini

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

J.K. Rowling

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Christopher Hitchens

Floating there I held onto faith. Because you can't know who might cross your path or who will take your breath away. You can't know what friends might actually become sisters because they stayed by your side. You can't know when there'll be an unexpected detour that'll take you to the place where you were always meant to be.

Holly C. Corbett

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Ustinov

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

Charles Dickens

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

Daisaku Ikeda

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

Melanie Griffith

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.

Jules Verne

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.

Angela Merkel

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins