What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Margaret Cavendish

With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

Andrew Shue

The bad boy: always more fun.

Ian McShane

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

St. Simon

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

William Penn

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

James Allen

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

Mark Twain

Interest in business ethics courses has surged, and student activities at leading business schools are more focused than ever before on making business serve long-term social values.

Peter Singer

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

Kobayashi Issa

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Clive Bell