For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.

People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

Curtis W. Fentress

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

Ambrose Bierce

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Steve Jobs

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?

George Bernard Shaw

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Francois Fenelon

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Simone de Beauvoir

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

Harry Firestone

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Brian Tracy

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Norman Douglas

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.

Marcus Aurelius

I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.

Russell Bishop