Sauerland Stern Quotes & Sayings

Most people are just too self-absorbed, well-meaning, and lazy to bother orchestrating Machiavellian plans to slight or insult us. It's more often a boring, complicated story of wrong assumptions, miscommunication, bad administration, and cover-ups - people trying, and mostly failing, to do the right thing, hurting each other not because that's their intention but because it's impossible to avoid. — Tim Kreider

On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of a work written in Latin by a German Monk toward the end of the fourteenth century ... First of all, what style should I employ? — Umberto Eco

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. — Christiane Amanpour

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens. — Sharon Salzberg

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, you got to believe in foolish miracles. — Ozzy Osbourne

It seems love is the root of all pain and most of its fruit only leaves a bitter taste behind. — L.F. Falconer