A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

Leo Tolstoy

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Thomas Mann

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

Marcus V. Pollio

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

J. K. Rowling

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

James Thurber

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

Gene Tierney

We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?

Rutherford Platt

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Orison Swett Marden

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Emile M. Cioran

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers. Source Unknown Effective leaders are known by the questions they ask rather than the statements they make.

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Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Ann Richards

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

Sarah Dessen