The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Jorge Luis Borges

Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.

Sir Claus Moser

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

William Shakespeare

I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't they want that positive, uptempo thing.

Alan Jackson

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

Jung Chang

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

William Shakespeare

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Bill Moyers

Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of

Josh Billings

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.

Ann Veneman

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.

Charles M. Schwab

No sale is really complete until the product is worn out, and the customer is satisfied.

L.L. Bean