The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Robert Burton

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.

Shaquille O'Neal

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.

Sorin Cerin

Men of genius are not to be analyzed by commonplace rules. The rest of us who have been or are leaders, more commonplace in our quality, will do well to remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

Robert Menzies

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Frederick Soddy

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

Flip Wilson

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.

Roger Kahn

I'm crazy about Grant: his character, his nature, his science in fighting and everything else. But I don't like the idea that he never accepted the blame for anything, always found someone else to blame for any mistake that was ever made, including blaming Prentiss for Shiloh.

Shelby Foote

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James

Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.

Jean Chretien

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Charles Darwin