If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest.

Frederick Bailes

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward George BulwerLytton

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

Mike Johanns

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

Peter Storey

Most people never feel secure because they are always worried that they will lose their job, lose the money they already have, lose their spouse, lose their health, and so on. The only true security in life comes from knowing that every single day you are improving yourself in some way, that you are increasing the caliber of who you are and that you are valuable to your company, your friends, and your family.

Anthony Robbins

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

George Bernard Shaw

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simone Weil, Human Personality 1

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a message to us from the dead -- from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

Charles Kingsley

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo