The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Thomas Babington Macaulay

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Wayne Dyer

Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the last instant you catch yourself? That's how I feel all the time.

Steven Wright

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Stephen Hadley

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Walt Schmidt

Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Paul De Man

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Wallace Stevens

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

Thomas Jefferson

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Scotty McCreery