It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Abraham Lincoln

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.

Voltaire

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

Veronica Rossi

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Ray Bradbury

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Colin Powell

Relationships-of all kinds-are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.

Kaleel Jamison

Oh, about beer I never lie. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

Stephen King

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.

Lauren Oliver

I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.

Bertrand Russell