I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

Bryant H. McGill

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

Orison Swett Marden

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

William Shakespeare

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Robert D. Foster

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

Gregory Maguire

It is so important to get respect for what you do and at the same time give it.

Estelle Parsons

Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my mind. Be found of me, Lord, so that in all things I may act only in accordance with Thy holy will.

Francis of Assisi

For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

William Shakespeare

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Dorothy Parker

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Jodi Picoult

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

Simone de Beauvoir