"We are basically in the nicotine business. . . . Effective control of nicotine in our products should equate to a significant product performance and cost advantage."

“The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.”

“Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.”

“I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.”

“Man's nature, originally good and common to all, should develop unhampered.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”

“Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!”

“By that time it was already clear that the next prime minster was going to be Golda Meir, a woman whom I frankly detested - a mutual sentiment, I might add. I knew her as an opinionated, obstinate person, primitive in her outlook, rigid in her attitudes, with a genius for reaching and exploiting the deepest fears and prejudices of the Jewish masses. I was certain that with her as prime minister, all peace efforts would come to a total standstill.”

Source : "My Friend, the Enemy". Book by Uri Avnery, 1986.

“In order to keep your husband, you have to make time for him. Rather than going out to dinner, I like to spend time for just the two of us.”