To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst th….

Aggressive accounting does not mean illegal accounting..

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy..

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, ope….

The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of mea….

We speak of memorizing as getting something 'by heart,' which really means 'by head.' But getting a poem or prose passage truly 'by heart' implies ge….

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, howeve….

Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either e….

And ever since then [I] have set up businesses basically out of frustration. I mean, I set up Virgin Atlantic with one second-hand 747 because I hate….

Desire means you are dragged out of the moment; that creates a tension, that creates anxiety, that creates hope. And then finally hope turns sour, be….

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out..

If untimely death came only those who deserved that fate, Keturah, where would choice be? No one would do good for its own sake, but only to avoid an….

Business really has to work its way back. It has to re-earn the trust of its broad sets of constituents..

Just because a poet said something didn’t mean it was true, only that it sounded good..

I know the President [Barack Obama]. I like him and respect him. That does not mean I agree with all of our government's policies, whether they come ….

All artists and creative people are basically unhappy people. If you were happy, that would mean you were content with the world as it was and why wo….

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth)..

More always means worse..

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, w….

To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to….

I believe that President Obama is here for a reason, but that doesn't mean that he has to stay there next year. The American people have an opportuni….