"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

“I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.”

“It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.”

“Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.”

“Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.”

Source : Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”

Source : "Speakes Defines His Role In Shaping Events" by Leslie H. Gelb, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1986.

“My mom reminds me that all things are possible.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.”

“Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.”

Source : James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223