Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

Salman Rushdie

Do not do what you would undo if caught.

Leah Arendt

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

George Orwell

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Dalai Lama

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city and deadly dull homes in the suburbs. Economic circumstances might force you to live in this environment, but the important thing was to keep from being contaminated. The important thing, always, was to remember who you were.

Richard Yates

Death can't be so bad if mom went through it. It makes it easier for the child to follow.

Danny Aiello

Beauty is only skin deep, but it is a valuable asset if you are poor or have not any sense

Kin Hubbard

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Roger Caras

Well, with that filly in my line of vision blushing like a virgin, something in me was bound to stand at attention. And my walking legs were occupied.

A.G. Starling

To what extent can truth endure incorporation? That is the question; that is the experiment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.

Maggie Smith