The important thing about being a leader is not being right or wrong but being certain. Of course it helps to be right as well, the Abbot conceeded.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

J. Paul Getty

To know your place is a good idea in politics. That is not to say stay in your place or hang on to your place, because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place -- a feel for one's own position in the control room -- is useful in gauging what you should try to do.

William Safire

To praise is an investment in happiness.

George M. Adams

No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything.

Anon., ~ attributed to B. Dodge

If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.

Benjamin Franklin

We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people — as remarkable as the telephone.

Steve Jobs

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Al Gore

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Georges Bernanos

The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park.

Source Unknown

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Beth Ditto

Some goals are not going to fulfill you. Choose goals that you value and care about.

Henry Cloud

He ransacked his memory like a thief going through another man's billfold.

Kurt Vonnegut