To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

John Kasich

There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

Stephen King

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousands and millions of suggestions and supposition are now forgotten that were current at the period, but have been shown by time to be unfounded and so have been consigned to oblivion.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Jane Goodall

Concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket...

Andrew Carnegie

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Andre Maurois

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

Right or wrong, the customer is always right.

Marshall Field

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

Sonia Braga

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

Barry Duncan

No, no! said the Queen. Sentence first - verdict afterwards.

Lewis Carroll