The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.

The best ideas often come from listening—to your team, your customers, and even your competitors.

I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

I'm not a sun, I'm a moon.

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.