Quotations

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.

Alan Alda

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Most of us never recognize opportunity until it goes to work in our competitor’s business.

P.L. ANDARR

A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.

John le Carre

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

John W. Gardner

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald