In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

Publilius Syrus

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

Warren G. Bennis

You want to live?Yes!Then quit thinking you're gonna die!

Laurel Dewey

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Roland Joffe

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

Timothy Geithner

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Jane Austen

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Marcus Aurelius

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

Charles Baudelaire

I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.

Tori Spelling

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Miriam Makeba

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

Mary Shelley

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau