You’ll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

You have a choice: pursue your dreams, or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams.

I just hope the woman I invited over to dinner shares our insightful perspective.

To broaden one’s prospective is to push back the swirling winds of ignorance.

I was drowning that times, but when I saw those eyes of yours, my body learned how to swim.

T.V. – If Kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have with twenty six.

He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. Then she smiled. Oh,...

Your pain made you strong. It made youpassionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

A dream with a deadline is a goal.

Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and...

That’s the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day after day or how they can fight for something they may not believe...

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Different denotes neither bad nor good, but it certainly means not the same.

It’s about how you’re like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you’re looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That’s why you have to look within...

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

Where would we be without the success of our mothers?

No one who ever led a nation got there by following the path of another.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

It’s sometimes difficult to align our wants with our needs, for old programing and new paradigms vibrate at very different levels.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle, the philosopher, observes, “Amongst his other gifts he had that of persuasiveness”; and the absence of this in the character of Marcius made all his...

The phone rang. It was a familiar voice.It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O’Neill had tried to stay in touch with people who had served under Gerald Ford, and he’d been reasonably conscientious about it. Alan...

People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche – effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole...

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that...

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience. Otherwise they fall into desuetude and become unfashionable, unorthodox—finally irregulationary.

…the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

The greatest of all faults is to imagine you have none”.

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

I have an iron deficiency. You can tell by how wrinkled my clothes are.

Insight and drive are all the skills you need. Everything else can be hired.

Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely.

I told her that I can’t be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake… I’ve never liked wedding cake due to the amount...

Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?””No sir.””That bothers me.

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person’s life was changed forever.

At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he’d ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it...

There’s some ill planet reigns:I must be patient till the heavens lookWith an aspect more favourable. Good my lords,I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall...

‎The stars are like the trees. Each one reminds us that we should still the greed in our heart. Each tree, each star, teaches us the ways of peace.

Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.

In life, you get what you believe you deserve.

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be disrupted. There is no middle ground.

Vision attained through mindful thinking, imagination and purpose reveals both the forest and the trees – as well as a path forward.

It’s not who you are. It’s part of who you are, but it’s not who you are. You’re so much more than just that, and I’m proud of you. All of you.” ~ Lucas’ Father

So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence.

In any honest analysis, change is the basis of fear, the idea of something new, of some paradigm that is unfamiliar, that is beyond our experiences so competent that we cannot even truly predict where...

There are times, Kruppe murmurs, when celibacy born of sad deprivation becomes a boon, nay, a source of great relief.