Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

Reason is the enemy of faith

Martin Luther King Jr.

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Larry Bird

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

There was a large sting near his upper lip. I touched it lightly. Does it hurt?My gaze moved from his lips up to his eyes. He was looking at me in a way that made me blush.Yes, he responded quietly.

Colleen Houck

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

Timothy Keller

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

Stockwell Day

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Samuel Johnson

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

It's been amazing, the number of commercials that I've done, starting back in 1968. It must be 8,000.

Casey Kasum