The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

T. E. Lawrence

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Dan Quayle

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

Dick Wolf

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Thomas Aquinas

I just got an iPhone, which is cool, but I don't download movies, I don't watch Hulu, I don't have Netflix. I don't do any of that. But I do geek out to music.

Miles Teller

The three sexes are men, women, and professors.

J. E. Spingarn

I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Jhumpa Lahiri

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Joseph Conrad

I believe in the power of weakness.

Pat Buckley

See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.

Henry David Thoreau

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow