Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Roger Mudd

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

Michael Jordan

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Philip Pullman

Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.

Sheryl Sandberg

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.

Brendan Coyle

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.

Werner Erhard

All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Plato

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.

Barbara Boxer