It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Carlos Ghosn

Like associates with like.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake, Jerusalem, 1820

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Emily Greene Balch

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

Mary Douglas

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Fortune's fool! How we humans lie upon beauty like lizards upon a sun-baked rock.

Roman Payne

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

Mark Udall

... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it

Lillian Breslow Rubin, Worlds of