He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the wind. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current. Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on towards ultimate success.

Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.

John Ruskin

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

Bar Refaeli

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Lucille Ball

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Terence

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.

Giambattista Valli

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote no.

Jeannette Rankin

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

Erica Durance

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Yoshio Taniguchi

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Edna Ferber

The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty.

Oscar Wilde