All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Most airlines move too fast in a merger. Speed is not as critical as efficiency.

It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.

I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.

The committee has an obligation to give you a choice. The members have the obligation and the right to make that choice.

Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.