“I’m the only one who had to do the perp walk. I’m going to have to figure my way out of this and I’m going to have to do it one joke at a time.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“"But there is another essential ingredient of success, and that ingredient is luck – absolute and total luck. When were you born? Who were your parents? Where did you grow up? None of us earned these things. They were given to us. When we strip away our luck and privilege and consider where we'd be…”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“Let your heart break. It will change what you do with your optimism.”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“Optimism for me isn't a passive expectation that things will get better; it's a conviction that we can make things better – that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away.”— Melinda Gates, news.stanford.edu
“Over time, I developed the confidence to stop trying to emulate others and to lead in a way that felt comfortable and true to me, it made all the difference. So trust yourself and trust your own voice. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to chang…”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“It’s less about a specific a policy or program that the development community is creating, it’s more about what women are creating for themselves.”— Melinda Gates, fortune.com
“If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.”— Melinda Gates, amazon.com
“The sentiments I now announce were not unknown before the expression of the voice which called me here.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“The field of calm and free discussion in our country is open, and will always be so, but never has been and never can be traversed for good in a spirit of sectionalism and uncharitabilities.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as "grace under pressure" — grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of ha…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“We need to look at the whole society and think, "Are we actually thinking about what we're doing as we go forward, and are we preserving the really important values that we have in society? Are we keeping it democratic, and open, and so on?"”— Tim Berners-Lee, ibm.com
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our depa…”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“An energetic man will succeed where an indolent one would vegetate and inevitably perish.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one.”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com