No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William C. Bagley, Craftmanship

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

Michel de Montaigne

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

Bill Laswell

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Jodi Picoult

Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!

C. JoyBell C.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Adam Smith

Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?

Steve Maraboli

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

Bill Owens

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Ron Fournier

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Neil Simon

I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I'm optimistic.

Karen Duffy