Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it home and opens it up and there's a rake inside it, an electric toilet plunger and a dog skull? That actually happened.

Eugene Chadbourne

How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, No

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Catherine the Great

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Epictetus

The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

Source Unknown

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.

Stu Jackson

I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'

Samuel L. Jackson

Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

H. L. Mencken

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

Cassandra Clare

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Sigmund Freud