Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

One thought fills immensity.

William Blake

I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Ernest Shackleton

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

Michael Kors

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

Richard Dawkins

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Larry Niven

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Viata nu inseamna a avea,ci a fi.

Nick Vujicic

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Major Owens

'Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Serious business people would never get elected in Ireland. You don't get elected in this country if you run around and tell people the truth. You've got to run round and lie to them about 'it will be all right on the night' and then they'll vote for you.

Michael O'Leary