We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

The right name is an advertisement in itself.

Claude Hopkins

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Joe Baca

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

William McKinley

He is rich who owes nothing.

Proverb

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar R. Fiedler

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Roberta Flack

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

Naoto Kan

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Bob Riley

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

David Mamet

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Philip James Bailey