If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principles of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration.

Peter Drucker

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

Jacques Mayol

I Love you, Hope

Colleen Hoover

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Edward F. Halifax

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

Kahlil Gibran

The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.

Shimon Peres

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

Thomas Jefferson

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Douglass North

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

Dante Alighieri

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood

Benjamin Franklin

That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron