Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.

We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side.

Willie Green

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

Bob Taft

A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

Kate Clinton

The poet is like the prince of cloudsWho haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,His giant wings prevent him from walking.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs d

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

James Thurber

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Anais Nin, The Novel of the Futu

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

Alain de Botton

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

Herschel Walker

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.

Suze Orman

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Sloane Crosley

I want to be recognized as the best-no doubt about it. When they say all-pro middle linebacker, I want them to mean Butkus!

Dick Butkus