The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Carl Sagan

Either move or be moved.

Colin Powell

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality

Martin Luther King Jr.

Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.

Sun Tzu

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Henri B. Stendhal

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.

Sarah Dessen

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Al Gore

I have reached the conclusion, a bit late perhaps, that speeches should be short.known for his three-hour speeches, reportedly shortened them to not more than 90 minutes

Fidel Castro

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Mark Twain

Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

Mark Twain

The evolution of the capitalist style of life could be easily -- and perhaps most tellingly -- described in terms of the genesis of the modern Lounge Suit.

Joseph Schumpeter