The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it's based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

Alton Brown

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Ayn Rand

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

George Eliot

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

Laura Nyro

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

George Bernard Shaw

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

Cesar Chavez

There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.

Kirk Cameron

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

David E. Kelley

Voi rakkaanisydän on kylmäja sammalta käteni kasvaaMinun reiteni mullassa hajoovat maaksiJa haudalla risti jo lahona on.Olen maa.Olen maa johon tahdot.

Timo K. Mukka

?Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

Plato

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

Christa McAuliffe