Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

If we really want to learn how to forgive, perhaps we had better start with something easier than the Gestapo.

C.S. Lewis

In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

James Henry Breasted

People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.

Sarah Palin

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Cameron Crowe

I can take any truth just don't lie to me.

Barbra Streisand

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

Shay Mitchell

No, I am your father.

Darth Vader

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

William Jennings Bryan

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even-if you will-eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Joseph Brodsky, Commencement Add

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Henry Kissinger

A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

Arnold Bennett