Many surround themselves with luminaries, but in so doing they dull their own sparkle. If you want to shine bright, look to the heavens and see how the brightest star always stands apart from those lesser shining stars.

Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.

P. J. O'Rourke

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

Orson Scott Card

To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

George Washington

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

Samuel Butler

In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Benjamin Disraeli

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

There is more to life than not dying.

Cassandra Clare

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

Hans Blix

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

Dr. Seuss

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it

Henry David Thoreau

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

Jessica Simpson

Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott