Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom...but only if you plant the seeds.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

Evo Morales

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Michael Bloomberg

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Oscar Wilde

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Gloria Steinem

Truth makes on the surface of nature no one track of light - every eye looking on finds its own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Tacitus, Agricola

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Eli Wallach

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

Charlize Theron

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

Charles Dickens

Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

Bruce Barton

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage

C. JoyBell C.