A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

Your hope shall be your life.

Lots of folks know stuff we don't, but that doesn't make 'em smart.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

On his multi-player injury substitutions against Western Samoa-It was like the Falklands crisis. I was counting them in and counting them out.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The Way of a Warrior is to establish harmony.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.