Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

God is a God of appreciation

I handle wisdom only after I just looked down, listened to and understood.

Still, he was angry--that particular anger of humans defied by the persistence of nature.

A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.

The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and it's affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Procedure names should reflect what they do; function names should reflect what they return