Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

The mathematics of high achievement

Thomas Carlyle

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

Rainn Wilson

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice

Nathan W. Morris

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

John Gray

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

Suzanne Farrell

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

Albert Schweitzer

Love didn't make you weak, it made you stronger.

Cassandra Clare

I am definitely going to take a course on time management... just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.

Louis E. Boone

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.

Mario Batali

Then people ask me if I'm worried about the effects of global warming on my kids. Well, obviously I love my kids and I want them to live to be a 100. So that's another 1.8 degrees. My kids' kids? Three point six. I'll just tell them we moved to Phoenix.

Dennis Miller