A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Austin O'Malley

Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.

Rick Riordan

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoover

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest

Abraham Lincoln

THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

Stephen Covey

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity.

Medard Boss

The glory of a workman, still more of a master-workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life

Thomas Carlyle

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Norman Douglas

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Chris Cofler

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Vera Farmiga

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Lin Yutang

White people love Wayne Brady, because he makes Bryant Gumbel look like Malcolm X

Bryant Gumbel