The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.

In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'

If you are succesfull for 20 years, you can't expect to stay on the same level all through that period. A career has its ups and downs and in-betweens.

It is possible for the assembly-line worker consigned to tightening the bolts on the transmission and the office worker who processes medical insurance claims to work with pride and efficiency, but it's not easy to maintain that attitude.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.