►There are two levers for moving men — interest and fear. Napoleon Bonaparte

►Taking a new step... is what people fear most. Dostoyevski

►Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.  Goethe

►Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.  Bulwer-Lytton

►Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.  Annonymous

►Laughter is the closest distance between two people.  Victor Borge

►Being powerful is like being a lady.   If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

                                        Margaret Thatcher

►It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.  Damon Runyan

►Knowledge speaks, but wisdom  listens.  Jimi Hendrix

►Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.  John Wooden

►Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.  Andre Gide

►Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. Tom Landry

►To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic but my willing and hoping are optimistic.  Albert Schweitzer

►No pessimist ever discovered the secrets to the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.  Helen Keller

►Possession is nine tenths of our flaw.

►Count your blessings instead of your possessions.  Spend more time with those you love, instead of spending more money on things you lack.