"In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life"

“The paradox: there can be no pilgrimage without a destination, but the destination is also not the real point of the endeavor. Not the destination, but the willingness to wander in pursuit characterizes pilgrimage. Willingness: to hear the tales along the way, to make the casual choices of travel, to acquiesce even to boredom. That's pilgrimage -- a mind full of journey.”

Source : Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

“America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.”

“I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.”

Source : "Eddie Izzard: Glorious". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 1997.

“Caress the detail, the divine detail.”

“I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.”

“Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.”

Source : Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

“If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them.  We do not give up.  The same thing should be true of our marriages.”

“Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.”