Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

Elie Tahari

The most important thing in life is the path to perfection, and what kind of perfection can exist if a person is proud and satisfied with himself?

Leo Tolstoy

Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?'I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.'Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.

C.S. Lewis

I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.

Minoru Yamasaki

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is a narration, an axis of innumerable narrations. One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

Jorge Luis Borges

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Mikhail Strabo

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

Aristotle

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Douglas Adams

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

Everybody needs one essential friend.

Dr. William Glasser

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

Herman Melville

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Sir Walter Raleigh