Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

Martina McBride

My father said When in doubt, castle.

Kurt Vonnegut

Long ago we conquered our passions looking at ourselves in the mirror of eternity.

Dejan Stojanovic

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.

Jon Stewart

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark;I thank God for the NightThe healing dark.

Robert William Service, Weary, f

Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber, Corporation Nati

Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.

Jacques Maritain

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.

John A. Simone, Sr.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

George Bernard Shaw

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

Carolyn Wells

I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then.

Orson Scott Card