It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present

Samuel Johnson

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

Walter Lippmann

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness - not disaster - to human beings.

Kenichi Fukui

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

William Penn

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Jimi Hendrix

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

Tom Vilsack

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

Karen Allen

Now, you can stand it when your body emits a stench before you realize it, or when it festers and becomes pussy and completely pollutes your skin. You make allowances for all this. In fact, this only increases your concern and love for your body; you wait on it and wash it, and you endure and help in every way you can. Why not do the same with the spouse whom God has given you, who is an even greater treasure and whom you have even more reason to love?

Martin Luther King Jr.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Albert Low

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

Ernest Newman

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

Friedrich Nietzsche