Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Martin Luther King Jr.

New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

Mira Nair

The private sector must play a role in ensuring the prosperity and health of the people who comprise its market. It is time for the private sector to become a proactive partner contributing to the efforts of governments and philanthropies.

Simon Mainwaring

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

Timothy McVeigh

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

James A. Froude

When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.

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He understood now why she was so much calmer, so much happier when he held her hand while they walked. When he first did that, she had looked at their linked fingers quizzically, but didn't pull away, even though she had been as skittish as a stray cat. limit.

Sandra Ross

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

Henry A. Kissinger

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

Harold Rosenberg

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Willie Stargell

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Salman Rushdie