"It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning."

“Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.”

“The launch of the report coincides with the initiation by WHO of the global strategy for the prevention and control of osteoporosis, and I think a good partnership could be established in our common efforts to prevent osteoporosis”

“And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen”

“The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.”

“If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.”

“Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.”

Source : "Treating the Dysfunctional CEO". scott.a16z.com. December 6, 2011.

“When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes.”

“I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.”

Source : "Sen. Jon Tester Decries Citizens United's Impact In Montana, Nationally". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. January 30, 2012.