Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Brian McBride

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Ambrose Bierce

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Edmund Husserl

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

Charles V

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.

African Proverb

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.

Honore de Balzac, Treatise on Mo

We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a bottomless sea.

Richard P. Feynman

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

Alan Shepard

There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet, of the last battle, of the last war.

General George Patton

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Todd Rundgren