The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Colin Powell

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Lafcadio Hearn

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Murray Kempton

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

Bill Kristol

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

Truman Capote, Answered Prayers

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.

Paulo Coelho

Mr. President, you were elected to lead. You chose to follow. And now it's time for you to get out of the way.

Mitt Romney

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading