Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Everything is defeated before love.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Ron Reagan

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katherine F. Gerould

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Mark Twain

Jesters do oft prove prophets

William Shakespeare

Little kindnesses... will broaden your heart, and slowly you will habituate yourself to helping your fellow man in many ways.

Zadik

Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

Karl Kraus

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Everyone learns in about the same way, but some people are better at it than others.

Earl Stevick

I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him in his business.

Ernie Banks