Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition -- in having put forth the best within you

Henry J. Kaiser

Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, - 'Tis man's perdition to be safe When for the truth he ought to die

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Deng Xiaoping

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

I can forget my very existence in a deep kiss of you.

Byron Caldwell Smith

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

Kahlil Gibran

There's a blush for won t, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

John Keats

To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

Friedrich Nietzsche

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

Frank Rich