It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

Eric Hoffer

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux, The Enchanted, 1

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

Michael Phelps

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Sigmund Freud

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

Leon Jouhaux

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

Cesar Romero

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Oprah Winfrey

Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his countrys cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same causehonor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle.

Abraham Lincoln

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey, In Face (London),

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

Susan Rice

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Martin Bormann

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Kahlil Gibran