Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
—Ayn Rand (Russian-born American Novelist)
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
—John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (American Philanthropist)
There are two good things in life—freedom of thought and freedom of action.
—W. Somerset Maugham (French Playwright)
If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
—Alfred Hitchcock (British-born American Film Director)
The first step is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The second is to begin where you are.
—Norman Vincent Peale (American Clergyman, Self-Help Author)
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
—Margaret Mead (American Anthropologist)
To accept excuse shows a good disposition.
—The Talmud (Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith)
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
—Colin Powell (American Military Leader)
Doing is better than saying.
—Common Proverb
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
—Henry David Thoreau (American Philosopher)
We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love.
—Gene Perret