Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We shall listen, not lecture learn, not threaten. We will enhance our safety by earning the respect of others and showing respect for them. In short, our foreign policy will rest on the traditional American values of restraint and empathy, not on military might.

Theodore C. Sorensen

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Lee H. Hamilton

In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can't learn well that way don't have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher's teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.

Robert Sternberg

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Studs Terkel

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Mencius

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

Marianne Faithfull, Faithful 199

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

Aristotle

We've entered an era when very good, competent people aren't getting jobs. One remedy is to stand out, to self-promote. If you do, you're going to get the nod over some co-worker.

Jeff Davidson

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

Tim Holden

No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad