"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected." - Steve Jobs                                                                   "You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken." - Gaspar Cassado                                                                   "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates                                                                   "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson                                                                   "Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs." - Vaclav Havel                                                                   "Ask yourself this question: "Will this matter a year from now?"" - Richard Carlson                                                                   "Seek the small improvement, one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden, basketball coach                                                                   "When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly." - Michel de Montaigne                                                                   "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Helen Keller                                                                   "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.                                                                   "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities." - Stephen R. Covey                                                                   "What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask." - Sam Keen                                                                   "It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person - "Always do what you are afraid to do"." - Ralph Waldo Emerson                                                                   "I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." - Mahatma Gandhi                                                                   "\"Above all, you want to create something you\'re proud of. This has always been my philosophy of business." - Sir Richard Branson                                                                   "Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy                                                                   "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." - Anita Roddick                                                                   "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller                                                                   "It's all happening perfectly." - Susan Jeffers                                                                   "I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - W.B. Yeats                                                                   "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations underneath them." - Henry David Thoreau                                                                   "Be the change that you most wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi                                                                   "Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." - Louisa May Alcott                                                                   "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers." - Daniel J. Boorstin                                                                   "All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." - Harry S. Truman