Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Henry James

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

Charles Lamb

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

W. Fusselman

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most urgent necessity in human life is to be able to face life victoriously. For many are living mentally, physically, morally and spiritually defeated.

F. A. Wickett

All the times being like, 'Who rented this car and why are we going to this place?' You take the easy route and go, 'Oh, thanks for the champagne. I'll have another.'

Rosario Dawson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.

Adlai Stevenson, Eulogy of Elean

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit

Samuel Johnson

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde