There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

K. Eric Drexler

But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

Abraham Lincoln

The real metric of success isn't the size of your bank account. It's the number of lives in whom you might be able to make a positive difference.

Naveen Jain

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

Regina Brett

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.

Benjamin Franklin

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

Oscar Wilde

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Paul Bourget

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

Michelle Obama

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Charles Stanley

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Kenneth L. Pike

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Laura Riding