The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Confucius

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

English Proverb

I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws they're entirely internal.

L'Wren Scott

It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.

Artemus Ward (writer)

Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Henry Kissinger

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

Eric Bently

Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.

Max Roach

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.

Source Unknown

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.

Robert L. Schwartz