Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.

Leo Tolstoy

here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Anthony Powell

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

Miriam Makeba

You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.

Pat Riley

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Whatever ought to be, can be.

James Rouse

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

Ted Nugent

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

Abraham Lincoln

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

Veronica Roth

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

George A. Romero

As a twig is bent the tree inclines.

Virgil