My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.

R. Lee Ermey

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

Albert Camus

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

Daniel Inouye

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

Aristotle

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Cecil Frank Powell

Things don't stay the way they are, said Finnerty. It's too entertaining to try to change them.

Kurt Vonnegut

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

James M. Barrie

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges