A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.

Robert Caro

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Other people say: hold on, if he's carrying the entire universe in a sack, right, that means he's carrying himself and the sack the sack, because the universe contains everything. Including him. And the sack, of course. Which contains him and the sack already. As it were.To which the reply is: well?

Terry Pratchett

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

Dag Hammarskjold

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

R. Lee Ermey

It's best to rise from life like a banquet, neither thirsty or drunken.

Aristotle

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

John Wesley

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

Junipero Serra

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Bennett Cerf

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

Philip Yancey

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.

Jonathan Haidt