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Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which "clicks."

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.