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(a US born American) Accepting the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's World Citizenship Award on behalf of her late husband, King Hussein of Jordan, 06-April-2000.

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"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge." -Saif Alam

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

"If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees. If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people." Ancient Chinese Proverb

"Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well." Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for my Journey Now

"Do not do what you would undo if caught." Leah Arendt

"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing." Lady Nancy Astor

"For more than 99 percent of human history, the world was enchanted and man saw himself as an integral part of it. The complete reversal of this perception in a mere four hundred years or so has destroyed the continuity of the human experience and the integrity of the human psyche. It has very nearly wrecked the planet as well. The only hope, or so it seems to me, lies in the reenchantment of the world." Morris Berman, Science Historian

"Occasions are rare; and those who know how to seize upon them are rarer." Josh Billings

"Don't think! Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things; you must do them." Ray Bradbury, novelist/screenwriter

"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life; Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate." Robert Browning

"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it, and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon." William F. Buckley, Jr., editor/writer

"Nobody makes a greater mistake then he who did nothing because he could only do a little." Edmund Burke

"I have opinions of my own—strong opinions—but I don't always agree with them." George Bush

"When we are dreaming alone, it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality." Dom Helder Camara

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone." Coco Chanel

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." Confucius

"Diversity…is not casual liberal tolerance of anything not yourself. It is not polite accommodation. Instead, diversity is, in action, the sometimes painful awareness that other people, other races, other voices, other habits of mind have as much integrity of being, as much claim on the world as you do…

And I urge you, amid all the differences present to the eye and mind, to reach out to create the bond that…will protect us all. We are all meant to be here together." William M. Chase, "The Language of Action"

"The only way I know how to organize is to talk to one person, and then you talk to another person, and then you talk to another…." Cesar Chavez

"My staff did a little research to illustrate what we could all do if we just gave back a little to our community. And they swear that if just everybody with the last name of Clinton and Gore in America, just the people whose last name is Clinton and Gore in America would put in two hours a week, they could paint every classroom and every public high school in America by Martin Luther King's next birthday."President Clinton at Martin Luther King Day activities at Cardoza HS in Washington, DC, 1/19/98

"If you want to be a bridge, you have to be prepared to be walked upon." John Coleman, Director of the Peter Paul Dvlpmt Center

"No man…can be a genius: but all men have a genius, to be served or disobeyed at their own peril." Coomaraswamy

"Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness." Aaron Copeland

"Interdependence is a higher value than independence."Steven R. Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." Charles DeGaulle

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Wisdom of the Sands

"In their little worlds in which children have their existence, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice...." Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"

"If you can dream it, you can do it."Walt Disney

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."Benjamin Disraeli

"What concerns Everyone can only be resolved by Everyone."Friedrich Durrenmatt

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Fredrick Douglas

"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between he does what he wants to do." Bob Dylan

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." Amelia Earhart

"The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work." Thomas Edison

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." Albert Einstein

"A platoon leader doesn't get his platoon to go by getting up and shouting and saying, 'I am smarter. I am the leader.' He gets men to go along with him because they want to do it for him and they believe in him." Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States

"I feel that the people who were voted into office must have the intelligence to know what to do and that everybody should have faith in them." Pamela Anne Eldred, Miss America of 1970

"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues." Duke Ellington

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet/philosopher

"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ride the horse in the direction that it is going." Werner Erhard, founder of est Training

"Increasingly, motherhood is being recognized as an excellent school for MANAGERS, demanding many of the same skills: organization, pacing, the balancing of conflicting claims, teaching, guiding, leading, monitoring, handling disturbances, imparting information." from the book, THE FEMALE ADVANTAGE: WOMEN'S WAYS OF LEADERSHIP

"You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself." Henry Firestone

"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got." Betty Ford

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success." Henry Ford

"Man has early learned what constitutes the physical universe but has not yet resolved how to behave in it." Forstner

"Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction." Anne Frank

"The last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude, in any set of circumstances to choose one's own way." Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" Ben Franklin

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward." Gallagher

"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." Indira Gandhi

"Live as if you will die tomorrow; learn as if you will live forever." Mohandas Gandhi

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large." Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Mahatma Gandhi

"I do not wish my house to be walled on all sides and my windows stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible." Mahatma Gandhi

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

"The Universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." Shakti Gawain

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." Shakti Gawain

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." Billy Graham, evangelist

"We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality." Vaclav Havel

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good." Vaclav Havel

"We whose hands have rocked the cradle, are now using our hands to rock the boat."Wilma Scott Heide

"Beginners acquire new theories and techniques until their minds are cluttered with options. Advanced students forget their many options. They allow the theories and techniques that they have learned to recede into the background. Learn to unclutter your mind. Learn to simplify your work As you rely less and less on knowing just what to do, your work will become more direct and powerful. You will discover that the quality of your consciousness is more potent than any techniques or theory of interpretation."John Heider, John, The Tao of Leadership, 1985

"Time is the least thing we have." Earnest Hemingway

"There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual – become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences, but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it." Robert Henri

"The deepest wisdom anyone can attain is to know that their destiny is to aid and serve."Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

"Anything the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." Napoleon Hill

"There is no fright in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." Alfred Hitchcock

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self." Aldous Huxley

"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." Henrick Ibsen

"You can't change the world, But you can change the facts. And when you change the facts, You change points of view. And when you change points of view, You change the world." Inscription on the Berlin Wall

"Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude." Jesse Jackson

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back." Mick Jagger

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified."Samuel Johnson

"Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying

"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent."C.G. Jung

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." C.G. Jung

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it." Danny Kaye

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted, but getting what you have, which, once you have got it, you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." Garrison Keillor, radio host/author

"Some people see things as they are and say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'Why Not?" Robert F. Kennedy

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." Helen Keller

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Helen Keller

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The greatest obstacle to racial justice is the White moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice."Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 letter from the Birmingham jail.

"The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind."Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The choice today is not between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Men hate each other because they fear each other, and they fear each other because they don't know each other, and they don't know each other because they are often separated from each other." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never hating, never resisting, never contesting, she is simply always learning and being." Lao-Tzu

"When you come to look back on all you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them." Rabbi Harold Kushner

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." Lao Tzu (780 - 490 B.C.)

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." John Lily

"We have to organize door by door, house by house, people by people, person by person…" Malcolm X

"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail." Abraham Maslow

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead (1901-1978), American Anthropologist

"Because of their age-long training in human relations --for that is what feminine intuition really is -- women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise..." Margaret Mead

"Preserve your independence, write boldly, and tell your truth fearlessly." Joseph Medill, 1867

"To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man." Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister

"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance." Henry Miller

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." Moliere

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you do your entire life, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do!" Henry Moore, sculptor

"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think." Toni Morrison

"It is said that a butterfly can, with a flap of wings, change the world...that the ripple it sends out can spawn a hurricane..." National Geographic, 1993

"I ain't exactly an expert. I do know that relationships take a lot more work than anybody tells you about. Maybe the younger you are, the harder it is. The relationship is growing and changing and so are you. By the time you think you got things workin' between the two of you, you look up and one of you is a different person." Barbara Neely, from Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

"That's what makes it tough. It's like getting' shit on your shoes, no matter how you scrape, there's always enough left to stink, until you just walk it off. That's what you got to do, walk it off." Barbara Neely, from Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

"Young people are the leaders of tomorrow only if we procrastinate." Dave O'Brien

"Nobody sees a flower, really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time." Georgia O'Keefe

"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." Ovid

"She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer."Gail Parent

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom." General Patton

"Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life." Octavio Paz

"I act on the conviction that everyone is making a difference. Just by living our lives, consuming space and resources, we are making a difference. Our choice is what kind of difference to make."Fran Peavey, American Activist and author of Heart Politics

"Great men can't be ruled." Ayn Rand

"I sincerely wish that you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, organizing it, and following it through to completion, and then having it be magnificently successful. I also hope you'll go through the same process and have something totally 'bomb out.'

I wish you could know how it feels 'to run' with all your heart and lose horribly.

I wish that you could achieve some great good for mankind, but have nobody know about it except you.

I wish you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of investing your life.

I hope you make a stupid, unethical mistake and get caught red-handed and are big enough to say those magic words, 'I was wrong.'

I hope you give so much of yourself that some days you wonder if it's all worthwhile.

I wish for you a magnificent obsession that will give you a reason for living and a purpose for life.

I wish for you the worst kind of criticism for everything you do, because that makes you fight beyond what you normally would.

I wish for you the experience of leadership." Earl Reum, Lifelines for Leaders, "A Wish for Leaders"

"My own worst enemy is moralism. Moralism means becoming emotionally attached to my own assessments of reality, believing I have the truth that will liberate us or provide us with redemption." Dick Richards, Artful Work

"Concentration is not merely an exploit of the mind. Concentration is calling our entire self to whatever task we choose – concentration is centering. Leaders are experts in concentrating the energy of others."Dick Richards, Artful Work

"A distraught friend told me that her son quit high school because he concluded that high school trained him, first and foremost, for organizational life. This teenager's appraisal of high school and organizational life was, 'Sit still and wait to be called on. Live by the clock. Let someone else decide if you are good or not. Don't go outside unless it's for play; important things only happen indoors.' Without judging the young man's decision, I think his formulation seems a respectable analysis." Dick Richards, Artful Work

"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life." M.C. Richards

"Every person is a special kind of artist and every activity is a special art…. We are artists so long as we are alive to the concreteness of a moment and do not use it to some other purpose."M.C. Richards

"When you are feeling depreciated, angry, or drained, it is a sign that other people are not open to your energy." Sanaya Roman

"We are very short on people who know how to do anything. So please don't set out to make money. Set out to make something and hope you get rich in the process." Andy Rooney, journalist

"I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face ... I say to myself, I have lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along ... we must do the things we think we cannot do."

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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'... You must do the thing you think you cannot do." (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have too little."Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Do what you can with what you have where you are." Theodore Roosevelt

"Of course, there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." Arthur Rubinstein, pianist

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." J.D. Salinger

"...Collaboration is the process of shared creation: two or more individuals with complementary skills interacting to create a shared understanding that none had previously possessed or could have come to on their own. Collaboration creates a shared meaning about a process, a product, or an event. In this sense, there is nothing routine about it. Something is there that wasn't there before. Collaboration can occur by mail, over the phone lines, and in person. But the true medium of collaboration is other people. Real innovation comes from this social matrix."Schrage

"Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch." Charles Scribner, Jr., publisher

"The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary." May V. Smith

"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn." Gloria Steinem

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." Robert Louis Stevenson

"The world is a looking-glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face." William Makepeace Thackeray

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." Henry David Thoreau

"As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG."" Donald Trump

The black person entered the booth one person and emerged on the other side a new, transfigured person. She entered weighed down by the anguish and burden of oppression, with the memory of being treated like rubbish gnawing away at her very vitals like some corrosive acid. She reappeared as someone new, "I am free," as she walked away with head held high, the shoulders set straighter, and an elastic spring in her step. How do you convey that sense of freedom that tasted like sweet nectar for the first time? How do you explain it to someone who was born into freedom? It is impossible to convey. It is ineffable, like trying perhaps to describe the color red to a person born blind." Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness, about the 1994 South African elections

We are different so that we can know our need of one another, for no one is ultimately self-sufficient. The completely self-sufficient person would be subhuman. Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness

"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." Mark Twain

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it solely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." Mark Twain

"To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental,
To reach out for another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing the self,
To place ideas and dreams before the crowd is to risk loss,
To love is to risk rejection,
To live is to risk dying,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try at all is to risk failure, But risk we must, Because the greatest hazard of all is to risk nothing, For those who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing." Unknown author

"Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse." Mort Zuckerman, publisher of U.S. News and World Report

"One of the reasons our country seems so purposeless (except where making money is concerned) is that Americans, even (and perhaps especially) genetically, have been kept from acknowledging and being who they really are. There are few "white" people in America, for instance, and even fewer "black" ones. This reality is metaphor for countless other areas of delusion. In all our diversity we have been one people--just as the peoples of the world are one people--even when the most vicious laws of separation have forced us to believe we are not. I, too, sing America." Alice Walker, Temple of my Familiar

"Ola says he is convinced that human beings want, above all else, to love each other freely, regardless of tribe, and that when they're finally able to do it openly - although the true essence of the person they've focused on is camouflaged by society's dictation - there is always the telltale quality of psychic recognition - that is to say, hysteria; the weeping of the womb." Alice Walker, Temple of my Familiar

"You have to learn to find joy in the struggle itself. Otherwise you die on the vine, so to speak." Alice Walker, Warrior Marks

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." Booker T. Washington

"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, and I love today." William Allen White

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." Oprah Winfrey

"Until the spirit of service is restored among American citizens, the most pressing human problems of our society will not be solved." Harris Wofford, Youth and the Needs of the Nation

"I love those who yearn for the impossible." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." Ziggy