Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.

Giacomo Casanova

I have a dream that one day???the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each day of our life is the best opportunity.

Lamar Thompson

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Mark Twain

Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.

Steve Wozniak

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Nina Bawden

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

Stephen Jay Gould

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.

Henry Ford

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.

Martha Stewart

Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.- John 16:2

Holy Spirit

When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.

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