Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.

John H. Patterson

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Wylie

Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.

Ambrose Bierce

I'd love to play a rock star in a movie, but for now, I'm not performing in public.

Elizabeth Berkley

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

E. M. Forster

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Mia Hamm

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

Valentina Tereshkova

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

Thomas Carlyle

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

John Howe

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

M Kathleen Casey

The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

Charles Dickens