The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Robert Lindner

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Cher

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Mark Twain

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

Marjorie Holmes

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

June Jordan

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

Martina Hingis

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

Stephen Stills