"You're fired!" No other words can so easily and succinctly reduce a confident, self-assured executive to an insecure, groveling shred of his former self.

An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job

Handled creatively, getting fired allows an executive to actually experience a sense of relief that he never wanted the job he has lost.

You are scared beyond words. You actually come to believe that you are going to die. If you go through that and then have small acts of kindness, little by little you find yourself feeling an enormous sense of gratitude.

There were certain code words they used to determine he was fine, that he had no problem whatsoever. That's why the officers weren't alerted.

but I am also a lot more that words cant say. words cant convey my voice, or my touch, words only paint as good a picture as i can make them to. and i am more than words.