I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first.

Reggie Leach

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Norman Vincent Peale

Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Emily Dickinson

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Ronald Reagan

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Thomas Huxley

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Soren Kierkegaard

The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

Thomas Hobbes

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that's another matter.

Peter Drucker

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Ariel Sharon

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Steven Wright

I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Miguel de Cervantes