Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Albert Einstein

Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.

Peter Mere Latham

When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are.

Daniel Webster

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P. J. O'Rourke

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

Pablo Neruda

In London, my associates and I planned two great expeditions--that to invade the Mediterranean and later that to cross the Channel. London's hospitality to the Americans, her good-humored acceptance of the added inconvenience we brought, her example of fortitude and quiet confidence in the final outcome--all these helped to make the Supreme Headquarters of the two Allied expeditions the smooth-working organizations they became.

Dwight D Eisenhower, after the d

Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.

Jamie Oliver

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Jodi Picoult

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Eliot Spitzer

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

Caroll Shelby

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Sylvester Stallone