I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions that make our lives worth living.

Brian Krans

Let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.

Dwight D Eisenhower

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer -- but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

Scott Reed

We must return to nature and nature's god.

Luther Burbank

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

H. L. Mencken

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth

Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.

Proverb

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

Sachin Tendulkar

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Yevgeny Zamyatin

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Jane Austen