Beauty doesn't have to be anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto ?

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Emily Dickinson

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

Temple Grandin

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

Tim Cook

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

Stephen Richards

As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

Pierre Nanterme

Every thing that grows Holds in perfection but a little moment

William Shakespeare

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Doug Coupland

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

Mitt Romney

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer