Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Henry David Thoreau

I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

Warren Buffett

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Tennessee Williams

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Sidney Poitier

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

Carl Sandburg

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

Michael Nesmith

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

Jim Valvano

By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.

Dan Lipinski

Clothe with life the weak intent, let me be the thing I meant.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy