As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.

Hollywood's Studio Era was part of a Golden Age because it didn't need profanity (unlike reality-television today)

Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Money is the seed of money.

To realize a dream, you must have a dream to realize.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

Every child should be taught to expect success

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.