It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

P. J. Plauger

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Ronald Reagan

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

André Gide

He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.

Stephen King

If you are planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in the negotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Marvin S. Levin

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

John Green

It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.

Coleman Cox

If you believe in something because of miracles, then another kind of miracles can make you deny it.

Toba Beta

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.

Vita SackvilleWest

True change takes place in the imagination.

Thomas Moore

I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.

Colin Firth