Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Judith Rossner

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

Georgios A. Papandreou

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness

Mark Twain

Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.

William James Mayo

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

Eliot Spitzer

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber, Corporation Nati

Through learning to listen to our own intuition, it develops to a constantly available inner source of love, truth and wisdom. We can close our eyes, go within, and always receive the right guidance.

Swami Dhyan Giten

I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.

John Sherman Cooper

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Gertrude Stein

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Sallust

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

Edmond de Goncourt