Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never met a word I didn't love

Gail Carson Levine

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Joyce Carol Oates

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome

Death is the end of life; ah why Should life all labour be? . . . All things have rest, and ripen toward the graveIn silence - ripen, fall, and cease; Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, The LotosE

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

Horace

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Dwight D Eisenhower

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

Why now? Why not? Live or die, a man and a woman need love. There is a need in the race. We need to share. To belong. Perhaps you will die before the year is out. But remember this: to have may be taken from you, to have had never. Far better to have tasted love before dying, than to die alone.

David Gemmell