Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value.
Ann Radecliffe

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S Truman

Talent is nothing but a prolonged period of attention and shortened period of mental assimilation.
Anonymous

If your success is not on your terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Anna Quindlen

It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
Barack Obama

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West

Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.
Oprah Winfrey

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
Henry Kissinger

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Harold Wison