I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Source Unknown

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy

There are many truely horrible things goin' on in the world whilst we're lost to the druthers over spilled milk.

James Dye

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

Meryl Streep

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

James Fenimore Cooper

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Abraham Lincoln

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

Taraji P. Henson

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

Jodi Picoult

I'm a little skeptical about using the Constitution this way, but I also believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that the courts shouldn't legislate this matter.

Pete Coors

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

G.K. Chesterton

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Paulo Coelho

This civilization is the work of man, who high-handedly and ignorant of the true workings of Nature, has created a world without meaning or foundation, which now threatens to destroy him, for through his behavior and his activities, he, who should be her master, has disturbed Nature's inherent unity.

Viktor Schauberger