The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence.

Aldous Huxley

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

Edward Hennessy

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

Laura Schlessinger

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Mike Krzyzewski

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Tony Robbins

The times when you want to cry are when you have to try your hardest. That's why I decided I'll cry in general. Then, when I have to shed tears for a time when I really want to cry, my tears would have run dry

Jacuzzi Splot - Baccano

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Nikki Giovanni

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Bess Myerson

You take the healthiest diet in the world, if you gave those people vitamins, they would be twice as healthy. So vitamins are valuable.

Robert Atkins

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Terrence Howard