If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Story Musgrave

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?

Paul Cezanne

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

Pablo Picasso

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Johann von Goethe

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama

Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.

Tim Holden

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Mark Twain

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

Ellen Ochoa

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Orison Swett Marden

If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

Lance Ito