Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

James H. Breasted

His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse.

Graham Greene

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

Ruth Ross

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Lynwood L. Giacomini

Gently - so have good men taught -Gently, and without grief, the old shall glideInto the new; the eternal flow of things,Like a bright river of the fields of heaven,Shall journey onward in perpetual peace.

William Cullen Bryant, An Evenin

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

Andrew Cuomo

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next.

Abraham Lincoln

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Philip Stanhope

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

Max Schmelling

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot