Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets
Cynicism. . . is the trade-mark of failure.
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
Most prisons have wide gates!
Journeys end in lovers' meeting. '. . . But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.
I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take another place, another time, another world, another life. Thank God I found the good in goodbye.
Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
I tried getting my dad to buy me a beeper for my birthday,” he says, “but he thinks only doctors and drug dealers need them.