I shed a tear today. Silenty, I felt it fall. You caught it, shared it, held it, felt it, then suddenly it wasn't so big after all.

If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?

Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.

Quintilian

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?

Max de Pree

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Judith McNaught

The prospects for a coherent, hilarious and consistent American comedy seem to lessen every year, as the poor waterlogged, gassy corpse called 'Evan Almighty' proved when it floated ashore recently. So there's a temptation to think too highly of Robin Williams's uneven but occasionally funny 'License to Wed.'

Stephen Hunter

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Rivka Galchen

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Hermann Hesse

To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of mental development .

Willie Brown

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Vladimir Putin

Family comes first. You're the only thing they have.

Heidi Klum