Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Benjamin Franklin

I see the eight of us with our 'Secret Annexe' as if we were a little piece of blue heaven, surrounded by heavy black rain clouds. The round, clearly defined spot where we stand is still safe, but the clouds gather more closely about us and the circle which separates us from the approaching danger closes more and more tightly. Now we are so surrounded by danger and darkness that we bump against each other, as we search desperately for a means of escape. We all look down below, where people are fighting each other, we look above, where it is quiet and beautiful, and meanwhile we are cut off by the great dark mass, which will not let us go upwards, but which stands before us as an impenetrable wall; it tries to crush us, but cannot do so yet. I can only cry and implore: 'Oh, if only the black circle could recede and open the way for us!'

Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Fr

To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

Aristotle Onassis

Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

Ryan White

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

Jean Baudrillard

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

Mike Farrell

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

George Bernard Shaw

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.

William Shakespeare

Your child's not looking at you and going, 'Mmm, I love a clavicle. Let me nestle into that.

Emily Procter