I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Pearl Buck

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Proverb

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

Aristotle

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Ernest Hemingway

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

Ed Koch

She didn't want me; she wanted all of me. I didn't mind saying it. My girlfriend scared the crap out of me.

T.J. Forrester

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.

Dr. David Schwartz

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.

Annie Jump Cannon

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid

Scientists investigate that which already is;Engineers create that which has never been.''

Albert Einstein