No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

Tim Tebow

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Marcus Aurelius

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

J. K. Rowling

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

Ulysses Simpson Grant, Personal

All art is an imitation of nature.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.

Kurt Vonnegut

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

William E. B. Du Bois

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

William Shakespeare

Time takes away the grief of men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.

Pharrell Williams