I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Elphaba, where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it--- history.

Winnie Holzman, Wicked (the musi

We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.

Proverb

The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.

Armstrong Williams

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

Nate Silver

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

Katharine Hepburn

In time of war the laws are silent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged

John Green

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Dave Farber

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Herbert Spencer

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

William J. Clinton

We think of our efficient teachers with a sense of recognition, but those who touched our humanity we remember with gratitude. Learning is the essential mineral, but warmth is the life-element for the child's soul, no less than for the growing plant.

Carl Gustav Jung, The Gifted Chi