The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading.

Bill Gates

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Robert Crandall

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Moraji R. Desai

When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Mark Twain

I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

Britney Spears

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Zhuang Zi

I never smile unless I mean it.

Donny Osmond

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.

W. S. Gilbert

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

Jonathan Sacks

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

David Attenborough

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Constance Baker Motley