Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Elvis Presley

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Wendell Phillips

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

Jim Sensenbrenner

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Gerard De Nerval

This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain.

Shaquille O'Neal

The two most powerful weapons are courage and persistence. Nothing can stop a person armed with both.

Scott Sorrell

Mother is putting my new secondhand clothes in order. She prays now, she says, that I may learn in my own life and away from home and friends what the heart is and what it feels. Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.Final words of Stephen Daedalus

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

Stephen King

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The problem was just a mean attitude that festers and has to be challenged.

Major Owens

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Barack Obama

...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson