This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Gloria Steinem

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them.

Phyllis Bottome

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Karl Menninger

I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I think about my work every minute of the day.

Jeff Koons

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children

Bertrand Russell

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

Priscilla Presley

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

Angela Ruggiero

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

David Ogden Stiers