Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.

In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Scott McNealy

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

Billy Graham

You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.

Steve Wynn

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Douglas William Jerrold

Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified organic farm is beautiful.

Woody Tasch

I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, Have you got anything I'd like? Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, Extra medium.

Steven Wright

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Bible

Detachment does not consist in setting fire to one's house, or becoming bankrupt or throwing one's fortune out of the window, or even giving away all of one's possessions. Detachment consists in refraining from letting our possessions possess us.

Abdu'l-Baha

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

Adriana Trigiani

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Amelia Earhart