Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.

Dustin Diamond

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

Craig Ferguson

A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Publilius Syrus

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

Thomas Aquinas

Leap, and the net will appear.

Julie Cameron

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Oscar Wilde

Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.

Madeleine Albright

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous -- almost of pedantic -- veracity, that the experienced angler is seen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

Henri Matisse

The distinction between past, present and future is an illusion, but a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein