We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Donny Osmond

My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.

Albert Einstein

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

Muriel Barbery

If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.

Kate DiCamillo

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Billy Joel

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Dave Brubeck

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same -- and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl Buck

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Nicolas Chamfort

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Abraham Lincoln

Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.

Hesiod