You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.

The thirst for an enduring fame is near akin to the love of true excellence; but the fame of the moment is a dangerous possession and a bastard motive; and he who does his acts in order that the echo of them may come back as a soft music in his ears, plays false to his noble destiny as a Christian man, places himself in continual danger of dallying with wrong, and taints even his virtuous actions at their source.

William Ewart Gladstone, The Lif

He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.

Benjamin Franklin

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

J. August Strindberg

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory thatsomeone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of livingis a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one dayyou look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

Have you seen but a bright lily grow,Before rude hands have touched it?Have you marked but the fall o' the snowBefore the soil hath smutched it?...O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!

Ben Johnson, Celebration of Char

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Dorothy L. Sayers

When I tell him that Im falling in love Why does he say Hush, hush, keep it down now. Voices carry?

Aimee Mann

A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

Jean de La Fontaine

We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school... It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. You see my physics students don't understand it... That is because I don't understand it. Nobody does.

Richard P. Feynman

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

John V. Politis

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

Helen Thomas