The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.

Frank Romer

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Aberjhani

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Mark Twain

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable being behind the wheel of something that's somewhat out of control.

Jeff Gordon

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please

Mark Twain

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Rosamunde Pilcher

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

James Randi

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Brian Bosworth

It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

Talcott Parsons

I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

Emily Blunt

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw