... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

W. Somerset Maugham

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Tony Dungy

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

... life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it;... it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it's as though you aren't there.

Alan Alda

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

Nikola Tesla

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think jazz is a wonderful learning tool.

John Otto

This is not the time to be passive. This is the time to shape, sculpt, paint, participate the time to get sweaty, to get dirty, to fall in love, to forgive, to forget, to hug, to kiss this is the time to experience, participate and live your life as a verb.

Steve Maraboli

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; also, it may be said, there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

Thomas Carlyle

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

J.K. Rowling

The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Yearning is not only a good way to go crazy but also a pretty good place to hide out from hard truth.

Jay Cocks