Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos (page: 193),

I thought of the one thing about home that I missed, my dad's study with its built-in, floor-to-ceiling shelves sagging with thick biographies and the black leather chair that kept me just uncomfortable enough to keep from feeling sleepy as I read.

John Green

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

William Westmoreland

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

Edward Gibbon

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Albert Einstein

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is --in other words, not a thing, but a think.

Penelope Fitzgerald

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Cyril Connolly

Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board.

Robert J. Mckain

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

C.S. Lewis