Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.

We need a balanced, long term energy policy to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and preserve the beauty of the land we love.

Heather Wilson

To be frank, I find religion rather offensive.

Terry Pratchett

But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.

Dan Simmons

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Vaclav Havel

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Donald Downes

I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog.

C.S. Lewis

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

Bonnie Tyler

Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.

George R.R. Martin

Death doesn't frighten me.

Princess of Wales Diana

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.

Sherri Shepherd

It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

Stephen King