The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

The saying is true, The empty vessel makes the greatest sound

William Shakespeare

Hire the best. Pay them fairly. Communicate frequently. Provide challenges and rewards. Believe in them. Get out of their way and they'll knock your socks off.

Mary Ann Allison

It is clear that economics, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science.

William Stanley Jevons

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Ted Williams

People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world nothing is happening.

David Brinkley

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

Morgan Freeman

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Bruce Springsteen

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

Andrew Motion

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

C.S. Lewis

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

Kahlil Gibran