“You wouldn't understand, dear. It's called style.”

“It's much easier to understand the pricing mechanisms for exit transactions if you look at it from the perspective of the professionals doing the business.”

“What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost...”

“As the leaf takes its time finding the ground so must I.”

“Centering Prayer is an opening, a response, a putting aside of all the debris that stands in the way of our being totally present to the present Lord, so that He can be present to us. It is a laying aside of thoughts, so that the heart can attend immediately to Him. All prayer is a response. The Lord first knocks, beckons, calls to us.”

“In the most successful exits, the company should be delivering its peak performance for the months leading up to the final price negotiations and closing.”

“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”