If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.
True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one's true character, to be altogether one's self, to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion.
I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.
It was a great childhood. We weren't especially wealthy or anything, but I felt I had a kind of safety and freedom.
Success without someone to share it with is hollow indeed. On the other hand, it beats the heck out of failure.
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.
Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.
Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.
Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.
In the same way that you're driven in your business to keep innovating - Facebook is a wonderful example of constant innovation - think about doing that in philanthropy.
And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.
The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it.
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
