It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.

American Indian Proverb, Oglala

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Benjamin Disraeli

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Danish proverb

Genius is born, not paid.

Oscar Wilde

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Thomas Carlyle

There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It?s possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!

Robert H. Schuller

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

Terry Pratchett

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Mark Twain