There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

James T. Walsh

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Richard J. Needham

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.

Ken Thompson

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.

Stefano Langone

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

Johnson

I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance.

Adam Young (Owl City), The Yacht

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Pat Riley

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

Kin Hubbard

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

Oliver Goldsmith

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Leo Tolstoy