The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward de Bono

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Kahlil Gibran

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Richard Wagner

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

Mahatma Gandhi

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Alexis Carrel

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Horace Mann

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Chazz Palminteri

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Richard Rohr

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

Michelle Obama

How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like, but lies that are more than literal truth.

Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Jim Critchfield