Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

We had periodic crises in this country when the technical intelligence didn't support the policy. We had the bomber gap, the missile gap.

Aldrich Ames

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life Matthew 6:27

Bible

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

Margaret Mead

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

Brett Favre

The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy -- to heal, as it is termed.

Samuel Hahnemann

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Mark Twain

I want to say a simple thing, that the dividing line exists not between Jordan and Israel, but between the proponents of peace and the opponents of peace.

King Hussein I

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Samuel Johnson

The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

William Carlos Williams