"...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you."

“When the economic pie grows larger, it's always possible for everyone to have a larger slice than before. So it's really in all of our interest to make the economic pie larger by eliminating waste whenever and wherever possible.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

“If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught.”

“My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.”

“It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.”

“Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.”

“I love you, too." But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now. Loving you has never been the problem. What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.”

“Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to think it effeminate and vaguely immoral.”

Source : Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

“Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?”