People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.

Charles Ives

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Wilson Lynd

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

Bashar al-Assad

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul

William Somerset Maugham

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.

Sheri L. Dew

To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

George Wald

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

Stephen Richards

Religion has run out of justifications.

Christopher Hitchens

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Alan Moore

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

The thing that goes the farthest

Wilbur D. Nesbit