"Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself."

“You can't choose up sides on a round world.”

“You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.”

Source : "Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wants Jobs for the Young". The Associated Press Article, October 11, 2008.

“To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.”

“Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”

Source : "His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America during the winter of 1871-72", Riverside Press, 1872.

“How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing.”

“There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs.”

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”

“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.”