"The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future."

“We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.”

“I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.”

“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”

“Ah, Morganville. Where dressing to hide bloodstains was just good daily planning.”

“We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.21

“There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.”

“For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

“My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.”