Most of our executives make very sound decisions. The trouble is many of them have turned out not to have been right.

Don't demand perfection. But insist on continuous improvement.

Torley

That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.

Sir Isaac Newton

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

John J. Sweeney

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Al Oerter

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

Billy Collins, "New York Times"

I just remember Stella Tenant and me dancing in Donatella Versace's bathtub until like four in the morning. It was one of those 'pinch me' moments.

Carolyn Murphy

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Jodi Picoult

The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.

Austin Kleon

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Abbie Hoffman

Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.

George D. Boardman