We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.

Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.

Sally Kempton

The right merchant is one who has the just average of faculties we call common sense; a man of a strong affinity for facts, who makes up his decision on what he has seen. He is thoroughly persuaded of the truths of arithmetic. There is always a reason, in the man, for his good or bad fortune in making money. Men talk as if there were some magic about this. He knows that all goes on the old road, pound for pound, cent for cent -- for every effect a perfect cause -- and that good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

Suzanne Fields

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Richard Cecil

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables.

Eric Hoffer

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.

John Sununu

I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.

Kiichi Miyazawa

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

Kindness is a brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

Ambrose Bierce

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Jonathan Swift

I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.

Nina Simone