Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke

Our task is amazement, not amusement. Always amazement first. – René Lavand

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life. – Leo Tolstoy

When I was young, I admired clever people. As I grew old I came to admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. – Henry Ford

The purpose of life is to have a life of purpose. – George Bernard Shaw

If you are going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. – Henry Kissinger

Fail to honour people, they fail to honour you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say: “We did this ourselves.” – Lao Tzu

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Gandhi

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. – Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, “Let us pray.” We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. – Bishop Desmond Tutu

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy. – Robert Half

What counts in life is not the mere fact we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. – Nelson Mandela

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. – Zen proverb

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill