"It's really impossible to project ahead even six months in this business"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

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

"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge"