There are people in the public sector with a range of experiences that have no equivalent in business, but are essential to governing, like keeping a kid in school or helping someone get and hold a job. The value of those skills can't easily be measured against a bottom line.

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and stealstheir affection from her.

George Bernard Shaw

And we turned off and 30 miles south they're standing in the middle of our road blocking our way, stopped the car, got out, took us through the path in the woods, where the craft was on the ground.

Betty Hill

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

P. J. O'Rourke

For greed all nature is too little.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Marshall McLuhan

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Kong Fu Zi

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

Whoopi Goldberg

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

Neil Gaiman

When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.

Steve Maraboli

I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Susan Orlean

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Plato