To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

Value added is a meaningless concept for a retail business, for a bank, for a life insurance company, and for any other business which is not primarily engaged in manufacturing.

Peter Drucker

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Carl Sandburg

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

William Shakespeare

Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.

Benjamin Franklin

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

John Milton

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

John Gay

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Terry Pratchett

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Jerry Gillies

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.

Lloyd Alexander

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

Isaac Mizrahi

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

Francis Bacon