My dad was a high school teacher and made no money.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

John Muir

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.

Alfred Adler

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I have wept a million tears: Pure and proud one, where are thine, What the gain though all thy years In unbroken beauty shine? All your beauty cannot win Truth we learn in pain and sighs: You can never enter in To the circle of the wise.

George William Russell

Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.

Yanni

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Cat Stevens

Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere

Blaise Pascal

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Claude Debussy

Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career.... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these.

Steve Jobs

A man of truth must also be a man of care.

Mahatma Gandhi

Certain winds will make men's temper bad.

George Eliot