Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Alexander Pope

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Maya Angelou

I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience.

Ricky Williams

Excess is success.

Roberto Cavalli

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Plato

The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

Carlos Salinas

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Maxwell Maltz

This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Thomas Jefferson

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

James Allen

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

Paulo Coelho

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

George Orwell