Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

Harold S. Geneen

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Anton Chekhov

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Eminem

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

John Lennon

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

John Oates

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Edna O'Brien

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Joseph Addison

Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th

Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but never zealots, respectors of the facts which attend each situation but never benders of those facts, uncomfortable in positions of leadership but rarely unable to turn down a responsibility once it has been offered . . . or thrust upon them. They make the best leaders in a democracy because they are unlikely to fall in love with power.

Stephen King

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar