Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase

Victor Hugo

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

Don Marquis

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

Stephen King

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Lady Stella Reading

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

Sally Quinn

A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures.

Sheila M. Eby

Though the encouragement of exportation and the discouragement of importation are the two great engines by which the mercantile system proposes to enrich every country, yet with regard to some particular commodities it seems to follow an opposite plan: to discourage exportation and to encourage importation. Its ultimate object, however, it pretends, is always the same, to enrich the country by the advantageous balance of trade. It discourages the exportation of the materials of manufacture, and of the instruments of trade, in order to give our own workmen an advantage, and to enable them to undersell those of other nations in all foreign markets; and by restraining, in this manner, the exportation of a few commodities of no great price, it proposes to occasion a much greater and more valuable exportation of others. It encourages the importation of the materials of manufacture in order that our own people may be enabled to work them up more cheaply, and thereby prevent a greater and more valuable importation of the manufactured commodities.

Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, B

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne

One must always be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Cassandra Clare

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.

David Mamet

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Peace Pilgrim

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats