All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

The first and foremost leadership quality is Honesty, the business and its employees are a reflection of a leader and as a result the ethical behavior will be followed by everyone in the team

There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

If we're serious about America's leadership in the world, then we need to make sure that we have the back of the armed forces.

Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

I have a very bad habit of just retreating from any given altercation.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.