I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that I wasn't in the mainstream with my fellow students. During job-hunting season, for example, everybody shaved their beards for interviews. I thought, 'This is crazy.' So I grew a beard.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

Genius is initiative on fire.

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today!

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.

It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.

Vision is a romantic thing. We have got into 'talent identification'. I am much more interested in passion - finding people who are really excited about doing something.

I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.

To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.

My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

It's a funny old world.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.