The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking read more

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second disasterous. -Margot Fonteyn.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria read more

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. Thanks to Maria Marquis Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve. -Margaret Thatcher.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts. -Buddha.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. -Robin Williams.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. read more

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. -Rabindranath Tagore.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. . -Carl Sagan.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as read more

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. -Herman Melville.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined read more

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. -Sydney J. Harris.