So many rocks up in my watch I can't tell what time it is.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Henry David Thoreau

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

Christopher Columbus

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Charles H. Parkhurst

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Larry Elder

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

George Steiner, Real Presences,

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Chanakya

As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you as fellow revolutionaries. Neither you nor I are willing to accept the tyranny of poverty, nor the dictatorship of ignorance, nor the despotism of ill health, nor the oppression of bias and prejudice and bigotry. We want change. We want progress. We want it both abroad and at homeand we aim to get it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.

Bobby Knight

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Plato

It is unfair to believe everything we hear about lawyers, some of it might not be true.

Gerald F. Lieberman

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Ambrose Bierce