'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector women at the top - C-level jobs board seats - tops out at fifteen sixteen per cent.

Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

If we mean to have heroes statesmen and philosophers we should have learned women.

The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates and wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

The more I work with the body keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Excellence then is a state concerned with choice lying in a mean relative to us this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.