Quote of the Day -- Martin Luther King Jr

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

Quote of the Day -- Dan Buettner

Living longer and feeling better is the sum of a few small easy choices you can incorporate into everyday life. 

-- Dan Buettner

Quote of the Day -- Henry Ford

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

-- Henry Ford

Quote of the Day -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Quote of the Day -- Theodore Parker

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. 

-- Theodore Parker 

(often attributed to Martin Luther King)

Quote of the Day -- Dave Pell on Oprah

My sense is that the reaction to Oprah's speech is less about her ambitions and more about our yearning for sanity. Compared to what we've gotten used to over the past year, she seemed both very stable and fairly genius. But what if Oprah's speech was less about running for office and more about an even higher calling? What if she wants to be something more important than a president: A citizen who takes a stand. 

-- Dave Pell on Oprah

Quote of the Day -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote of the Day -- Hubert Humphrey

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

-- Hubert Humphrey

Quote of the Day -- Paul Coehlo

If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It's lethal. 

-- Paul Coehlo

Quote of the Day -- Evan Osnos

China has never seen such a moment, when its pursuit of a larger role in the world coincides with America’s pursuit of a smaller one. Ever since the Second World War, the United States has advocated an international order based on a free press and judiciary, human rights, free trade, and protection of the environment. It planted those ideas in the rebuilding of Germany and Japan, and spread them with alliances around the world. In March, 1959, President Eisenhower argued that America’s authority could not rest on military power alone. “We could be the wealthiest and the most mighty nation and still lose the battle of the world if we do not help our world neighbors protect their freedom and advance their social and economic progress,” he said. “It is not the goal of the American people that the United States should be the richest nation in the graveyard of history.”

-- Evan Osnos, The New Yorker