Just a smile from the right person can delete fear, cancel unhappiness, and even dissolve physical pain.

If we can find short-term incentives that are consistent with our long-term objectives, it is much easier to make the right decisions in the moment.

It is no common mortal who speaks to us in this music.

My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

No vision issue today is bigger than the question of efficiency versus some combination of innovation and customer service.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

I just love family meetings. Very cozy, with the Christmas garlands round the fireplace and a nice pot of tea and a detective from Scotland Yard ready to arrest you.