Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.

I wanted to be an astronaut and wanted to go to space camp, but then I found out that I was too short to become an astronaut. My mom really made me believe that if I worked hard enough and if I really wanted to do it, I could do it.

Soleil Moon Frye

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

Anne Rice

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Peter Straub

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Maya Angelou

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Alex Ferguson

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

John Green

There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.

Rudolf Bultmann

Choice forms the divider which is responsible for the formation of all futures that can be possible.

Stephen Richards

If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

Richard Milhous Nixon

History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

James Garfield