Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society

The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to legal response

It's sad to see the devil cry.

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

It's a lot better to hope than not to.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me