Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

Viktor E. Frankl

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

Henry James

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Eliot Spitzer

It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or anything else that I might damage through curiosity, or perhaps something more sinister.

Robert B. Laughlin

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

African Proverb

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

Mark Twain

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

G. K. Chesterton

A single word often betrays a great design.

Jean Racine

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

Sir Winston Churchill