The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

Leo Rosten

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Abraham Lincoln

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.

Marty Allen

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Roy L. Smith

Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.

Miguel de Cervantes

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

Ally Condie

Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach a special value to dirty paper with pictures of presidents on it. Handing some of that to a cashier simply hurts more than handing over a little sliver of plastic.

Jeffrey Kluger

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

David Hume

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

Edward George BulwerLytton