America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

Sydney Smith

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

John Dos Passos

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

Life that dares send A challenge to his end, And when it comes, say, Welcome, friend!

Richard Crashaw

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nevell Bovee

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Mark Twain

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Christina Ricci

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Mark Twain

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Dag Hammarskjold