Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

Phil Jackson

I'm very blessed, thankful, grateful for the opportunities I've had.

Christen Press

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

Sam Donaldson

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

Danica McKellar

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Bill Vaughan

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann von Goethe

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Lionel Blue

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

Benjamin Franklin

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Michelle Williams

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson