if you continue to think about what other people will say or think about you when you do something right or wrong, you will always end up doing what other want you to do and you will never do what you want to do.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

Empedocles

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

John Perry Barlow

What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?

Anthony Weiner

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Malcolm Fraser

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Thomas Traherne

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Martin Scorsese

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Ann Patchett

Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Lionel Trilling