Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!

Concentration is my motto -- first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Carl Sagan

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell

Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings.

William Shakespeare

Those great spiritual efforts, which the soul sometimes assays, are things on which it does not lay hold. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, for ever, but merely for an instant.

Blaise Pascal

Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.

Sargent Shriver

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

John Carmack

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Peace Pilgrim

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

Giancarlo Stanton

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Max Beerbohm

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

Gail Simmons