Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

What the power structure is afraid of is that we're going to learn to recognize the truth when we hear it.

Daniel Keys Moran

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

David Byrne

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords

Samuel Johnson

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.

Orson Scott Card

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Friedrich Schiller

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

Frank McCourt

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.

Nora Roberts

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Tom Clancy

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Vince Lombardi

Poverty is what I'm writing about.

George Orwell

I can't bring myself to trust you. But even if you were to betray me, and even if you were to become my enemy... would it be okay for me to love? Could you... let me love you?

Ryohgo Narita