Behind every small business there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities the restaurants cleaners gyms hair salons hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust we are all worse off for it.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father or like me?

As a small businessperson you have no greater leverage than the truth.

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday far too young and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children Sean Daniel and Victoria living in a prefab house.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads if whatever he may have to preach he shows himself best able to perform.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities our families our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America America. In our best days we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities large and small.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

For the greater beauty of the instrument the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness but so contrived that they may be taken off at pleasure and others much smaller and fitter for some purposes put in their places.

My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset I hear my mother's voice and smile.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee the small child and the smiling faces. Smell the rain and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential and fight for your dreams.

I have a small house so I borrow everything except art that's what I love.

Kinkade's paintings are worthless schmaltz and the lamestream media that love him are wrong. However I'd love to see a museum mount a small show of Kinkade's work. I would like the art world and the wider world to argue about him in public out in the open.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Every happening great and small is a parable whereby God speaks to us and the art of life is to get the message.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet but soon will and will change everything for everybody and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible never the impossible.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.