We are mathematical equations where your life is the sum of all choices you've made until now. The good news is you can change the equation so that you start making a difference in your life.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Arabic Proverb

It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Source Unknown

When George Washington threw the dollar across the Rappahannock River, he didn't realize he was establishing a precedent for government spending.

Harold Coffin, "The San Francisc

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

Edward Tufte

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

Tim Tebow

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

Saul Landau

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Jean de la Bruyere

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Amy Vanderbilt

Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector.

David Rockefeller

Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?

Lucy Stone, As quoted in The Lif

One day I ran into my girlfriend with my car. She asked me why I didn't ride around her. I told her that I didn't think I had enough gas.

Rodney Dangerfield

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

Wendelin Van Draanen