The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.

It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food.

Regis Philbin

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

Steve Maraboli

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Oliver Goldsmith

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

Thomas Middleton

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

Kurt Vonnegut

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself

Mark Twain

Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

Garrett Hedlund

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Dante Alighieri

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Cornelius Nepos