"Connection and love: We all want it. Most people settle for connection because love's too scary."

“It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.”

Source : "The Hard Thing About Hard Things". Book by Ben Horowitz, March 4, 2014.

“A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.”

“Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.”

Source : Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

“Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.”

“I was different from most young conductors today.”

“Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.”

“More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.”

“Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.”

Source : James Broughton (1988). “75 Life Lines”