[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet consumer demands at lowest cost, or else be driven from the market. It is a profit-and-loss system. Naturally, existing businesses generally prefer to keep out competitors in other ways. That is why the business community, despite its rhetoric, has so often been a major enemy of truly free enterprise.

Milton Friedman

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Florence Nightingale

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

I travel a lot I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

Caskie Stinnett

I'm not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.

Ben Stiller

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Arthur C. Clarke

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann von Goethe

To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead

Bertrand Russell

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

Bono

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

Carroll O'Connor

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Robert Cialdini