A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

George Orwell

You know when someone's over-flattering you in a way. You smile but you can't believe it.

Laura Linney

You should start with an assumption that you, as an entrepreneur, are wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.

Elon Musk

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth

Irish Sayings

I wake up and tear drops, they fall down like rain. I put on that old song we danced to and then, I head off to my job cause not much has changed. Punch the clock, head for home, check the phone. Just in case. Go to bed, dream of you. That's what I am doing these days.

Rascal Flatts

Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.

Francoise Sagan

The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

Archie Griffin, The Archie Griff

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

Laurell K Hamilton

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

Kevyn Aucoin

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

Roger Moore