When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there.

Ken Blanchard

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Naveen Jain

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

Richard Carlson, Ph. D

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am the toughest golfer mentally.

Tiger Woods

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

Rachel McAdams

Pleasure is the bait of sin

Plato

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Lord Chesterfield