Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

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Charles Fillmore

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens

The real object of those who resorted to Secession, as well as those who sustained it, was not to overthrow the Government of the United States but to perpetuate the principles upon which it was founded. The object in quitting the Union was not to destroy, but to save the principles of the Constitution.

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Leonard Bernstein

Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

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Demosthenes

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

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Samuel Johnson

You teach your daugthers the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

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Sun-tzu

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

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Corrine Dewlow

It is your attitude at the beginning of a task that determines success or failure.

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Edward W. Howe

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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