When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Anthony Robbins

Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.

Anon.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

Thomas Jefferson

The best part of health is fine disposition

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

Oscar Wilde

I am taught the poorness of our invention, the ugliness of towns and palaces. Art and luxury have early learned that they must work as enhancement and sequel to this original beauty. I am over instructed for my return. Henceforth I shall be hard to please

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

David Herbert Lawrence

The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.

Nick Clooney

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Patricia Hewitt

She never seemed to get near the edge. She lived on other people's edges. And when they fell off, she'd admire how pretty they looked as they fell.

Orson Scott Card