Development is a voluntary process. You need a positive decision to make the right steps, but it starts with introspection.

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

The fall of the Berlin Wall on 11/9/89 unleashed forces that ultimately liberated all the captive peoples of the Soviet Empire

People will change their habits quickly IF they have a strong reason for doing so.

Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.

How youMore people will learn about IBM from Wikipedia in the coming years than from IBM itself.

Culture is nested in context, not genes.

It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Sometimes it's hard not to let other people's misery seep into your own bones.

An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave.

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire the one that inspires all his plans all his actions he would say: "I want to be praised."

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If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

All green and fair the summer lies, Just budded from the bud of spring, With tender blue of wistful skies, And winds that softly sing.