I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

When I started my last business, I didn't receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can't handle that pressure.

Robert Kiyosaki

Michael: This used to be my father's old study -- it's changed. I remember there used to be a big desk, right here. I remember when I was a kid, Frankie, we had to be very quiet when we played near here. I was very happy that this house never went to strangers -- first Clemenza took it over, now you. My father taught me many things here -- he taught me in this room... (then, as Michael sits beside Pentangeli) He taught me -- keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Mario Puzo, Al Pacino as Michael

I like the truth, even when it does trouble me.

Juliet Marillier

the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.

John Stuart Mill

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

John D. Rockefeller

Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

Ben Johnson

Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

Zig Ziglar

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Ursula K. Le Guin

To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.

Virginia Woolf

Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.

Vin Diesel