I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

John Ruskin

I feel like I'm part of history being made. I leave Apple board meetings thinking, 'I've got to do a better job.'

Andrea Jung

He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.

Victor Hugo

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Mary Pickford

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Meister Eckhart

When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Criss Jami

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

James Barrie

Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish

Thomas Jefferson

I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Russell Bishop

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Gertrude Stein

I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintance.

Benjamin Franklin