To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.

The main business of religions is to purify control and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions but to use the ordinary ones and in working them up into poetry to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement a mutual adjustment of interests an interchange of services given and received it is in sum simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

In the US there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions called Democrats and Republicans which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense without the grace of genius can deal with successfully.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing no wind is favorable.

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera which I bought for his birthday.

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years which rejected it.

When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

The return of my birthday if I remember it fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday when it will wind up in the Saturday papers which if you were readers then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

I have lost my seven best friends which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship took it from me sent me another.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality but I did not of course manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.