Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, Lighthouses as the poet said erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

No nation can meet the world's challenges alone.

Hillary Clinton

We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

Jodi Picoult

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Paulo Coelho

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

June Jordan

Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Lewis H. Lapham

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Harold S. Geneen

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Tacitus

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Norman Douglas

Time discovers truth.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Christopher Hitchens