He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.

Martin Mull

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Hannah Arendt

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas . . . If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you . . . On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.

Carl Sagan

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

Tertullian

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Louis Kahn

Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it.

King Abdullah II

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Jim DeMint

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson