Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. - Thomas Jefferson

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. - Will Durant 

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched—they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller 

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy

In every success story, you find someone has made a courageous decision. - Peter Drucker

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. - Calvin Coolidge

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. - Lao Tzu

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. - Samuel Johnson

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. - George Bernard Shaw

The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed. - Mahatma Ghandi

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius

How I live my life, that is my teaching.- Mahatma Gandhi

You have to live your life in such a way that when you leave this world, you will rejoice, and all the people around you will cry. - Indian Wisdom

Ability is of little account without opportunity.- Napoleon Bonaparte

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.- Alan Greenspan

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end…I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.- Abraham Lincoln

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.- Mark Twain

How is the world ruled and how do wars start?  Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. - Karl Kraus

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.- Will Durant

Society needs a return to spiritual values—not to offset the material but to make it fully productive.  However remote its realization for the great mass of mankind, there is today the promise of material abundance or at least of material sufficiency.  Mankind needs the return to spiritual values, for it needs compassion.  It needs the deep experience that the Thou and the I are one, which all higher religions share….

But moral numbness is also a terrible disease of mind and soul, and a terrible danger.  It abets, even if it does not condone, cruelty and persecution.  We have learned that the ethical humanitarianism of the nineteenth century cannot prevent man from becoming beast.- Peter Drucker

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.- Bernard Baruch

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle.  I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.- Mother Teresa

The first responsibility of a professional was spelled out clearly, 2,500 years ago, in the Hippocratic oath of the Greek physician: primun non nocere, “above all, not knowingly to do harm”.  No professional, be she doctor, lawyer, or manager, can promise that she will indeed do good for her client.  All she can do is try.  But she can promise that she will not knowingly do harm.  And the client, in turn, must be able to trust the professional not knowingly to do the client harm.  Otherwise he cannot trust her at all.  And primun non nocere, “not knowingly to do harm”, is the basic rule of professional ethics, the basic rule of an ethics of public responsibility. - Peter Drucker

In the developed countries, there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love.  There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one. - Mother Teresa

Look for the future that has already happened. - Peter Drucker

When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night, and pay no worship to the garish sun. - Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.  Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.- Louis L’Amour

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. - Talleyrand

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power.  He is free again.
- Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. - Chinese proverb

The problem is not just what we don't know, but what we do know that ain't so. - Mark Twain

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. - William Shakespeare

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. - Dr. Samuel Johnson

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. - William Penn

Marriage is such a heavy burden, it takes three people to carry it. - Old French proverb

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. - Samuel Beckett

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. - Winston Churchill

Concentrate totally on one thing for 3 minutes and you can own the world. - Old Chinese proverb

If we were humble, nothing would change us--neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone were to praise us, we also would not feel proud. - Mother Teresa