Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

Napoleon Hill

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.

William Ellery Channing

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

George Eliot

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Wendell Berry

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

Money: power at its most liquid.

Mason Cooley

To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental.

Christopher Hitchens

The customer is not always right. You don't go to your dentist and neurologist and say, 'You know, I have some ideas!'

Anthony Bourdain

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

Mo Rocca

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.

John Jay Chapman

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Donald Rumsfeld