I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

Richard Le Gallienne

Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.

Marcus Aurelius

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Ronald David Laing

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

Alex Trebek

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

George Foreman

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows that religious principles bear upon nothing whatever and are not in the slightest innate. Ignorance and fear, you will repeat to them, ignorance and fear -- those are the twin bases of every religion.

Marquis de Sade

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Elbert Hubbard

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Shmuley Boteach

My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.

Gail Porter

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men

Plato