Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Dag Hammarskjold

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

James Otis

Knowledge is only potential power.

Napoleon Hill

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Steve Kerr

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

John Green

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Robert Mapplethorpe

Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Aldous Huxley

In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe.

Mariana Fulger

We also very importantly recommend continued growth in the Army and the Marine Corps end strength.

John M. McHugh

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.

American Indian Proverb, Kiowa

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

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The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell