Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Lois Capps

Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.

Robert Townsend

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

Phaedrus

I can believe anything as long as it is incredible

Oscar Wilde

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Hugh Jackman

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

William Hazlitt

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Oliver Goldsmith

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced

Albert Einstein

A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

Linda Robinson

If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.

Christopher Hitchens