If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper...When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

Shirley MacLaine

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

Wallace Stevens

Daisy didn't just change our lives, she changed our destiny.

Maryam Faresh

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Joe Nichols

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles

Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

George Santayana

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

James Russell Lowell

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

Bruce Willis

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

Richard Milhous Nixon

The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Mary Doria Russell

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

Stephen King