One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Thomas Friedman

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

H. L. Mencken

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.

Jon Meacham

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

Euripides

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Theodor Adorno

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

Carly Fiorina

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Henry Rollins

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Alanis Morissette