The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Dee Dee Myers

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.

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Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

James Taylor

I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.

Marcus Aurelius

'UFO's' attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy its philosophy is more 'I want to believe this, but I want it proved.'

Dwight Schultz

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Brian Eno

What is worse than evil? The inability to bear it.

C. J. Weber

Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspired.

Homer

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

W. C. Fields

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

David Seabury

Love is lost in men's capricious minds, but in women s, it fills all the room it finds.

John Crowne