It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

Mandy Patinkin

We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Thomas Moffett

Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.

Mary Caroline Richards

To the believer Marxism presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions...

Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, S

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Kathy Najimy

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Henry Ford

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Billy Graham

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

Tom Morris

If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Chuck Klosterman

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Erlich

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

Terrell Davis

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Mohamed El-Erian