Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Sir Theodore Martin, Said at rea

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Mitch Daniels

No hoary falsehood shall be a truth to me; no stifling dogma shall encramp my pen!

Anton LaVey

Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.

Augustine of Hippo

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

John Kenneth Galbraith

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

Herbert Hoover

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

Cameron Crowe

It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

Steve Backley

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Elbert Hubbard

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

Shaquille O'Neal

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Richard Martin Stern