Often,our immediate reaction to a sudden crisis help us save ourselves. Our response to gradual crises that creep up upon us, on the other hand,may be so adaptive as to ultimately lead to self-destruction.

Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents.

Gerhard Kocher

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

John Clayton

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

Dwight D Eisenhower

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Proverb

Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behaviour Of silk-sack clouds! has wilder, wilful-wavier Meal-drift moulded ever and melted across skies?

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

Simon Baker

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Henry David Thoreau

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Robert Doisneau

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

James C. Humes