It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Simone Weil

When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large.

Andrea Jung

Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.

George Harrison

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.

William O. Douglas

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

Yiddish Proverb

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

Faye Wattleton

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Sydney Smith

This great maxim of Philosophy he had gathered by the teaching of nature alone: That man was created to work, not to speculate, or feel, or dream.

Thomas Carlyle

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.

Joseph Barbara

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus