"The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves - they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means."

“Whoever passes forty without his virtue overpowering his vice, let him get ready for hellfire. This advice contains enough for people of knowledge.”

“I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.”

“We seem to be paying some of our employees an awful lot of money.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mortimer Duke". "Trading Places", 1983.

“I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.”

“The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.”

Source : John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.96, A&C Black

“We will not build our offensive game plan around our punter. We will not major in punting.”

Source : Rex Ryan's first press conference as coach of the Buffalo Bills, www.buffalobills.com. January 14, 2015.

“A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.”

“The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.”

Source : "Strategy bites back: It is a lot more, and less, than you ever imagined". Book by Henry Mintzberg, Bruce W. Ahlstrand, Joseph Lampel (p. 45), 2005.