The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

Robert Caro

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known

Charles Dickens

We too. No wisdom to utter. You've beauty, flux, and terror To tell. So've I. And they're Very hard to mutter Through so much chatter and stutter.

Philip José Farmer

High-performing people set goals religiously and track them religiously. They obsess about whether they're hitting or missing those goals, and why. If you don't set and track goals, life just passes you by.

Cameron Herold

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

Henry David Thoreau

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Demosthenes

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Henry Jacobsen

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

Robert Collier

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Thomas Szasz

People who know and love the same books you do have the road map of your soul. I believe that.

Cassandra Clare

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.

Thomas Jefferson