The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Publilius Syrus

The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Stephen Leacock

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Horace

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

John Podhoretz

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

John Thorn

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand here where I am standing.

William Faulkner, Nobel Acceptan

The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.

John Powell

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

Bill Gates

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin P. Adams

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Mehmet Oz

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Jimmy Carter