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- Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
- Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living, 1931
- He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958), Crewe Train, 1926
- To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
- Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938
- A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.
- Marie De France, 12th Century
- The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
- It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
- Sue Grafton (1940 - ), 'H' Is for Homicide, 1991
- The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
- Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
- I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
- Sydney Biddle Barrows, in Marian Christy, ''Mayflower Madam' Tells All,' Boston Globe, 1986
- I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
- They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
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