People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Francesca Annis

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Lucretius

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Peter Drucker

Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Benjamin Franklin

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

Al Franken

By fully experiencing and going beyond an emotional block - through the layers of doubt and fear - you experience the emotion of who you truly are.

Stephen Richards

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

Sanjay Kumar

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Mark Twain

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

Ai Weiwei

I'm a very loyal boyfriend. I'm a bit of a joker... I can be romantic, but not too sickly.

Louis Tomlinson

What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name

Cassandra Clare