Do not underestimate the importance of feeling special.
I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.
We are never satisfied with having done well; and in endeavoring to do better, we do much worse.
When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!
long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in: but Providence in kindness to us causes us to forget it. It is much the same with lying-in women. Heaven permits this forgetfulness that the world may be peopled, and that folks may take journeys to Provence.
Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!
There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.
Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.
If you can get people who don't know about you to know about you (marketing), and you can convert them into customers (sales), and once they're customers, you can lead them from point A to point B, you can accomplish anything on the planet