But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

Voltaire

In theory, everybody buys the best and cheapest commodities offered to him on the market. In practice, if every one went around pricing, and chemically testing before purchasing, the dozens of soaps or fabrics or brands of bread which are for sale, economic life would become hopelessly jammed.

Edward Bernays

I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me I was raised in this society.

Tupac Shakur

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

Peter Drucker

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Brian Eno

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Mark Twain

You're not gay, are you?If I were, I would dress better.

Cassandra Clare

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.Mandela's son Makgatho died on Jan. 6, 2005 of illness related to AIDS, at age 54.

Nelson Mandela, Cape Times, July

To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.

Amy Wilson-Carmichael

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

David Feherty

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Henry David Thoreau