The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Gary Ryan Blair

It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.

Lou Gerstner

If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as spiritual life, God, soul, cross, etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

John Ciardi

Believe me, You will surely see the light. even if you are in a darkest room though, It will go in through small holes in your room.

Chandra Bobby

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Virginia Satir

The best way to compete is to get defeat.

Santosh Kalwar

We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I hope to be an actor and never retire.

Dominic Monaghan

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Barbara Cartland

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless..

J.K. Rowling