Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

Friedrich von Schiller

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy

Thomas Carlyle

She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.

George Eliot

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

Bob Dole

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

James Fenimore Cooper

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

Leo Tolstoy

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

The universe is an intelligence test.

Timothy Leary

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.

Sydney J. Harris

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.

Peter Drucker

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

Jean de la Bruyere