Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Mark Twain

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

George Eliot

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

The strength in our third-quarter financial results is cause for excitement. I'm particularly pleased that we continue to demonstrate impressive growth at the same time we are engaged in important merger discussions.

Bernard Ebbers

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Orison Swett Marden

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

Samuel Johnson

To be perfectly honest, I think that as I'm growing older, I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say, 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.

Michael Haneke

The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.

Leonard Boswell

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

Jodi Picoult

A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim.

Kenneth Chang

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Johann von Goethe

a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Gautama Buddha