The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it.

Carl Sagan

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

Duke Ellington

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

Publilius Syrus

The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's own or real life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.

C.S. Lewis

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

Harry Connick, Jr.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

Charles Stanley

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

W. H. Auden

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Elizabeth Drew, Poetry: A Modern

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

Clay Aiken

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Caroll Shelby

I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.

Earl Warren