This enraged the other Nazi so much that the next morning he came to our house and he shot my father.

She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters.

Leo Tolstoy

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

Rick Perry

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.

Proverb

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

John Milton

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Larry Bird

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

John D. Rockefeller