It takes a great client to create great architecture.

In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration. But, given the size of the planet Earth, do you know how long it would take for just one of these protein molecules to appear by chance? Roughly 10 to the 243rd power, billions of years; and I find that far, far more fantastic than simply believing in a god.

William Peter Blatty, The Ninth

Your level of belief in yourself will inevitably manifest itself in whatever you do.

Les Brown

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Michelle Bachelet

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do something for somebody, gladly, twill sweeten your every care; In sharing the sorrow of others Your own are less hard to bear. Do something for somebody always, whatever may be your creed. There's nothing on earth can help you so much as a kindly deed.

Source Unknown

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

Mickey Rooney

We forget that the most successful statesmen have been professionals. Lincoln was a professional politician.

Felix Frankfurter

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Freddie Mercury

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Artur Davis

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Henry David Thoreau

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Mary McCarthy