The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.
—Robert W. Service (Scottish Poet)
You must have a high concept not of what you are doing, but of what you may do someday. Without that there’s no point to working.
—Edgar Degas (French Painter)
Illusion is always based on reality, for its strength depends upon its fit with the desires, fears and experiences of countless humans.
—Dero A. Saunders (American Journalist)
Love… Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence.
—David Seabury (American Psychologist)
Scientists are treated like gods handing down new commandments. People tend to assume that religion has been disproved by science. But the scientist may tell us how the world works, not why it works, not how we should live our lives, not how we face death or make moral decisions.
—Susan Howatch (British Historical Novelist)
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
—Andrew W. Mellon (American Financier)
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
—Ulysses G. Weatherly (American Sociologist, Educator)
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
—Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) (Roman Statesman, Poet)
The humanities of business in this age have become more important than the techniques of business. Each business and industry has to sweep the public misunderstandings and the false notions off its own front walk. Thus will a pathway be cleared for popular appreciation of the important rule of business in our freedom and in our way of life.
—Harry Amos Bullis (American Business Leader)