Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear.

Discovery is meant to fill in the need of the society

Followers can't give new ideas and never be a leader.

You make your own choices, Kira, and you can’t let anyone ever take that away from you.

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

If you create great content, huzzah. But if it doesn't move anywhere, you're not succeeding.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.