There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Charles de Montesquieu

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Friedrich von Schiller

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

Charles Dudley Warner

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

Richard Eyre

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

There is much that public policy can do to support American entrepreneurs. Health insurance reform will make it easier for entrepreneurs to take a chance on a new business without putting their family's health at risk. Tort reform will make it easier to take prudent risks on new products in a number of sectors.

Eric Ries

Every solution breeds new problems.

Arthur Bloch

A day is only a day. But a life is only a life.

James Richardson

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections?

George Eliot

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come!

Philander Johnson

When I was a kid, I took 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Partridge Family' very seriously. It was a world to me in the same way that the Greek myths would have been had I read them. You know, Marcia is Athena and Mr. Brady is Zeus.

George Saunders

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick