Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Kofi Annan

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Khalil Gibran

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future is going to hold.

Ray Dalio

I don't take myself terribly seriously. It's why I can be incredibly honest about my life.

Mariel Hemingway

A city life for me!

Thomas Beecham

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

Tom Allen

Fate is not in man but around him

Albert Camus

So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

Russell Baker

Peace is important for Israel.

Ehud Olmert

Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

Michael Steele