The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Amy Grant

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

Terry Pratchett

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

George Saunders

As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future.

Ronald Reagan

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

Sylvester Stallone

Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength of that bond, which is both abstract and concrete, spiritual and legal.

Whitney Otto

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Groucho Marx

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Jonathan Swift

We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us.

Blaise Pascal

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

George W. Bush