A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

Harold Ramis

Your title makes you a manager. Your people make you a leader.

Debbie Biondolillo

The greatest power anyone has is the capacity to change.

AV

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

Graham Greene

Mayonnaise, n. One of the sauces that serve the French in place of a state religion.

Ambrose Bierce

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Stendhal

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

Debbie Gibson

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Ludwig von Mises

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

Samuel Johnson

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly