The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Ultimately, if you can say that I'm a bad owner and we're winning championships, I can live with that. But if we're not making the playoffs and we're spending and losing money, then I have to look in the mirror and say maybe I'm not taking the necessary steps to doing what it takes to run an organization.

Michael Jordan

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Wernher Von Braun

It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.

Joshua Emmet

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Arthur Koestler

Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future --and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

Albert Camus

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

Bruce Barton

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Peter Ustinov

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

N.T. Wright

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.

Byron White

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.

Peace Pilgrim

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

Kevin Kelly