Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .

J.K. Rowling

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.

Julio Iglesias

Sports is human life in microcosm.

Howard Cosell

Once when I was lost.. I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him...Do you think we'll ever find them.? He said..I don't know kid.. there are so many places they can hide.

Rodney Dangerfield

Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.

Joseph Schumpeter

A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.

Charles Horton Cooley

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

Jason Silva

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

Yitzhak Rabin

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

W. H. Auden

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime.

Jonathan Kozol

Non, ce n'était pas moi qui comptais, ni le monde, mais seulement l'accord et le silence qui de lui ? moi faisait naître l'amour.

Albert Camus