Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you. Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003

My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible. Josephine demott Robinson, O Magazine, December 2003

To try to be better is to be better. Charlotte Cushman, quoted in O Magazine, December 2003

Strive for excellence, not perfection. H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger. Saul Bellow, O...

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own...

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld, quoted in O Magazine, October 2002