What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

Business can learn about new conditions the same way a gene pool does. I'm not claiming companies can get smarter, just that dumb ones will die.

Paul Graham

Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.

Chinese Proverb

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Manuel Puig

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Bertrand Russell

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

Nile Rodgers

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

William Butler Yeats

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

Stephen King

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

Rabindranath Tagore