Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words -- and never stops at all.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

William Green

It's easier to revise lousy writing than to revise a blank sheet of paper.

S. A. Bodeen

A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Pleasure is to Women what the Sun is to the Flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, etiolates, and destroys.

Colton

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Billy Graham

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Stephen Hawking

Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

Comfort is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being comfortable.

Swami Vivekananda

The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Unless important advantages are to be gained from hesitation, it is necessary to set to work at once. By this speed a hundred enemy measures are nipped in the bud, and public opinion is won most rapidly. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

Karl Von Clausewitz

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

Ann Romney