Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Openness is also an acceptance that just as you have the inherent right to create your life as you see fit, so others have the same right with their own lives, even if their design differs from yours greatly.

Stephen Richards

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Arthur Koestler

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Maggie Q

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

Source Unknown

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Edward Hopper

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Henry Home

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

Paul Theroux

The part of the brain most affected by early stress is the prefrontal cortex, which is critical in self-regulatory activities of all kinds, both emotional and cognitive. As a result, children who grow up in stressful environments generally find it harder to concentrate, harder to sit still, harder to rebound from disappointments, and harder to follow directions. And that has a direct effect on their performance in school.

Paul Tough

Not to the curious or impatient soul That in the start, demands the end be shown, And at each step, stops waiting for a sign; But to the tireless toiler toward the goal, Shall the great miracles of God be known And life revealed, immortal and divine.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

C.S. Lewis