Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

Jessica Capshaw

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Simon Mainwaring

Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Sir Winston Churchill

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Bill Watterson

I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.

Leo Tolstoy

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.

Paulo Coelho

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw

The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.

Ron Chernow

The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.

Giuseppe Mazzini

When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.

Proverb

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

William James

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker