Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.

A homeless guy came up to me on the street, said he hadn't eaten in four days. I told him, Man, I wish I had your willpower.

Rodney Dangerfield

The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.

Andrew Shue

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Warren Bennis

The object of art is to give life a shape. Midsummer Nights Dream

William Shakespeare

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Clara Bow

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Incompetent people are, at most, 1% of the problem. The other 99% are good people trying to do a good job who make very simple mistakes and it's the process that set them up to make these mistakes.

Lucian Leape, M.D. Patient Safet

As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

Otto Dix

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Sir Winston Churchill

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love is a friendhip with erotic moments.

Antonio Gala