I no longer ask the young man's question: How far will I go? My questions are now those of the mature person: When it is over, what will my life have been about? First as Martin Buber taught, life is meeting. We come alive only when we relate to others. Secondly, we are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great dramatic leap in results. Finally, we are here to finish god's labors. One of the sages of the Talmud taught nearly two thousand years ago that God could have created a plant that would grow loaves of bread. Instead He created wheat for us to mill and bake into bread. Why? So that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Eric Hoffer

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Katharine Hepburn

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.

John Avlon

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Jim Valvano

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

J.R.R. Tolkien

The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success.

Irving Berlin

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Ronald Reagan

youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Aristotle

I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.

Javier Bardem

It is possible in this world to be pretty and funny and successful all at the same time.

Olivia Munn

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Jean de la Bruyere

This dust was once the man, Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age,Was saved the Union of these States.

Walt Whitman, Memories of Presid