More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.

Mark Twain

Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.

Ron Lewis

To give oneself is the only way of becoming oneself.

Earl Nightingale

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

Elton John

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

Mark Kelly

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Stuart Sutherland

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

William Hazlitt

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Kahlil Gibran

Love, then unstinted, Love did sip, And cherries plucked fresh from the lip; On cheeks and roses free he fed; Lasses like autumn plums did drop, And lads indifferently did crop A flower and a maidenhead.

Richard Lovelace

I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.

Bill Frist

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

James A. Baldwin