The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

John Cheever

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

John Stuart Mill

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Travis Tritt

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Thomas Love Peacock

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

Marvin Minsky

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Billy Corgan

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Pavlova

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Abdul Kalam

The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honore de Balzac

We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Dr. Jess Lair

Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.

Hugh Blair