My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me and it's influenced me in a positive way.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

John L. Phillips

Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.

James Parton

Self-denial is painful for a moment, but very agreeable in the end.

Jane Taylor

No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for youto be a better man.

Toba Beta

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

John Cusack

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

Lynn Swann

A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

Honore de Balzac

Patience and hope are indispensable for the success of any idea or plan.

on behalf of Shoghi Effendi

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

Wallace Stevens

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People happy in love have an air of intensity.

Stendhal