Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

Evel Knievel

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

Jacob Bronowski

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

Robert Trout

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

Archibald Cox

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

Abigail Adams

Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

W. Somerset Maugham

No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.

Thomas Jefferson

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts.

Herbert Marcuse

From love's plectrum arisesthe song of the string of lifeLove is the light of lifelove is the fire of life

Allama Muhammad Iqbal

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

Jerome Lawrence

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X