Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.

Steve Ballmer

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Charlie Haden

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

Nikolai Gogol

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Patrick Kavanagh

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

Duane Chapman

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

Rollo May

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Washington Irving

A winning smile makes winners of us all.

Source Unknown

In my professional work with the Agency, by the late '70s, I had come to question the value of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the intelligence agency's impact on American policy.

Aldrich Ames

There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Edward Abbey

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

Muqtada al Sadr

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley