My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

My learning process is by eye alone it's not at all scientific.

Miuccia Prada

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

Marlon Brando

Words pay no debts.

William Shakespeare

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

You don't have power if you surrender all your principles -- you have office.

Ron Todd

To brighten humanity.We must constantly give the gift that everyone really wants...Love

Timothy Pina

With reasonable men, I will reason with humane men I will plead but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Zig Ziglar

There's only truth and not truth. You're either very good or evil. I went back to my dorm and asked myself what I was. If your principles aren't grounded in absolute truth, you don't know what to think.

Christine O'Donnell

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Harlan Stone

Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.

Neil Gaiman