"Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix."

“We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products.”

“I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.”

“THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.”

“In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.”

Source : Robert L. Bartley (1992). “The Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again”, Free Press

“Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.”

Source : Song: God Is God, Album: I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, 2011

“I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.”

“When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.”

“I think I have a really good work ethic.”

Source : "Q&A with Ashlyn Harris, Washington Freedom's Newest Goalkeeper". Interview with Kat Galsim, bleacherreport.com. June 9, 2010.