And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don't mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes.True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly is before you.True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life-altering insight.

Vera Nazarian

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

Dada Vaswani

Like sheep which, having been driven to a pasture, can now spread out at their leisure, the clouds began to drift. Afternoon sunlight sliced through into the still waters. The boomerang hung in the sky, and the boy thought he would have to find a new word for the way the colours glowed. In the meantime, he looked down at the water and tried out the word he'd been taught by his grandfather, who'd been taught it by grandfather, and which had been kept for thousands of years for when it would been needed. It meant . It had, he thought, been well worth waiting for.

Terry Pratchett

I always considered myself as a character actor. I always try to be versatile to show different sides of human experience.

Robert Duvall

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Debra Winger

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

Tallulah Bankhead

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Andrew Young

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Johann von Goethe

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Robert Orben

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Woodrow Wilson