You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

I like to think of myself as a fairly educated human being, but I'm a very uneducated actor when it comes to movies, directors, producers, actors for that matter.

Shailene Woodley

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

All I ever wanted really, and continue to want out of life, is to give 100 percent to whatever I'm doing and to be committed to whatever I'm doing and then let the results speak for themselves. Also to never take myself or people for granted and always be thankful and grateful to the people who helped me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson

I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.

Alan Seeger

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

A. J. Liebling

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

George Bernard Shaw

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind's treason; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart's need.

R. S. Thomas

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

Thomas Moore

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson