Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

George Earle Buckle

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Bodhidharma

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Samuel Johnson

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

Michael Porter

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Lady Gaga

Getting stuck is reactive, getting unstuck is proactive.

Sherene McHenry

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Victor Hugo

There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.

Jose Rizal

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

Nadine Gordimer

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

Michael Sheen

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Robert Kiyosaki

Live on doubts; it becomes madness or stops entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld