Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.

Lou Gerstner

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Muhammad Yunus

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Iris Murdoch

My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar.

Susan Orlean

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

Merrill Markoe

Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.

John Mayer

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Helen Rowland

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

Everything in moderation -- including moderation.

Harvey Steiman