“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.”

– Nido Qubein

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”

– Thomas J Watson

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

– Leo Rosten

“It’s an incredibly liberating thing when you stop worrying about what other people think about you. Now I just need me to love me and, as a result, I’m a much better friend, girlfriend, sister, aunt, everything.”

- Linda Evans

“The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”

- Richard Cech

“We don’t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.”

- Gerald J. Simmons on Perception

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.”

- Horace on Passions

“[My mother] said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.”

– Maya Angelou

“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.”

– Alexander Woolcott