And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Steven Wright

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau

There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.

Billie Joe Armstrong

follow no path all paths lead where truth is here

E.E. Cummings

My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.

Vince Flynn

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

David Hackworth

Black as the devil, Hot as hell,Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand, (o

I work six months and get three or four with the family. I've stopped racing to get to the red light.

Kyle Chandler

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Eric Alterman

The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect equality of rights.

Thomas Jefferson

There should be one day when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers