Shortly after I met Bill Gates, Bill's dad asked each of us to write down on a piece of paper one word that would best describe what had helped us the most. Bill and I, without any collaboration at all, each wrote the word "focus.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Ralph Ellison

Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.

T.C. Boyle

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I'm really good looking. Then other times I think my body's all wrong.

Alex Sanchez

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Haile Gebrselassie

True obedience is true freedom.

Henry Ward Beecher

I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

Jarvis Cocker

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

Marc Andreessen

Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers, Lull'd by the faint breezes sighing through her hair; Sleeps she and hears not the melancholy numbers Breathed to my sad lute 'mid the lonely air.

George Darley

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

Gail Simmons

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Frank Murkowski

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

Finley Peter Dunne