Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Robert Redford

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Victor Hugo

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.

Russel H. Conwell

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.

Andrea Jung

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

David Baldacci

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

Billy Graham

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection must rest on circumstantial evidence.

George Santayana