Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us.

Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

Harold S. Geneen

One must be something in order to do something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

Cameron Diaz

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Julia Child

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

Steve Perry

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

Casey Stengel

If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

Bill Hybels

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Plato

I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

Ryan Tedder

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

Neil Gaiman