So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Ted Turner

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

Claire Cook

I never have been involved in politics.

Rick Warren

My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Benjamin Franklin

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Richard Branson

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Bobby Hull

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

Felix Frankfurter

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

Thomas Carlyle

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Charles Caleb Colton

When committees gather, each member is necessarily an actor, uncontrollably acting out the part of himself, reading the lines that identify him, asserting his identity. We are designed, coded, it seems, to place the highest priority on being individuals, and we must do this first, at whatever cost, even if it means disability for the group.

Lewis Thomas

I am a part of all that I have met.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier