In I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Dave Matthews

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

John Leonard

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Aristotle

Men are blind in their own cause.

Heywood Broun

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

Gerald W. Johnson

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.

Charles Caleb Colton

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Irving Howe

God loved us before he made us; and his love has never diminished and never shall.

Julian of Norwich

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.

Paula Nelson

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Denis Waitley

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth

Charles Dickens

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Studs Terkel