Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much

William Shakespeare

The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better, as far as I can tell.

Jennifer Garner

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

No man is free who is not a master of himself.

Epictetus

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Helen Keller

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller

I am the tool with which God works. My virtue is to participate in this work, and I can do so if I keep the instrument which is given to me, namely my soul, in immaculate condition.

Leo Tolstoy

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.

Dennis Banks

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

A store's best advertisement is the service its goods render, for upon such service rest the future, the good-will, of an organization.

James Cash Penney