Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal, Lettres provincia

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden

If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Laurence J. Peter

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Max Beerbohm

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Charles Lamb

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.

Steve Maraboli

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

Ayn Rand, (interview), "Playboy"

Members of Congress were told they could face martial law if they didn't pass the bailout bill. This will not be the last time.

James Dye

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Henry David Thoreau

You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person.

Scott Sorrell

Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.

M. Kathleen Casey

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

George MacDonald