Every one of us is more beloved than we can possibly understand or imagine. Let us therefore be kinder to one another and kinder to ourselves.

Who dares, win

Paulo Coelho

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Voltaire

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Booker T. Washington

Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.

W. Somerset Maugham

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

Saint John of the Cross

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Gloria Steinem

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold S. Geneen

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Herbert Hoover