Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Matt Blunt

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

Simon Greenleaf

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.A Libertarian Movement slogan

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is

It's probably a bit of a power trip when you befriend somebody enough that they trust you to tell you things.

Josh Brolin

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Sir Philip Sidney

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Henry David Thoreau

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.

Doug Davidson

I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.

George Osborne

I love my parents. But I'm almost 28 and it's not fun to be asked, 'What are you doing today? What do you want for dinner? When are you going to be home?' It just makes you feel like a kid. It's this juxtaposition of feeling annoyed and really lucky to have people who love you so much.

Jonah Hill

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.

Edmund Burke, Reflections on the

Honest hearts produce honest actions.

Brigham Young

I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

Bill Cosby