I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot.

If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

Carly Fiorina

Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where itmeditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awakenthat slumbering Progress.

Victor Hugo, Les Mis

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Robert Kennedy

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Thomas Jefferson

God is like the sun. When the sun shines, it shines for everyone. God is for everyone.

Ziggy Marley

She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.

Paulo Coelho

A peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

Mata Amritanandamayi

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

Erica Jong