The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

It isn't about 'games', for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something, anything, far bigger than yourself.

Shigeru Miyamoto

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

James Burgh

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George A. Sheehan

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

Vera Rubin

I can write good songs. I can sing 'em, and I mean it, I mean it deeply, and I pour everything into that. Other than that, I suck.

Adam Duritz

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

Ted Olson

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago when I read how her noble sons had defended America in its cradle. Today I am proud that I am one of the millions who will come to save our heroine from the clutches of the villain from across the Rhine.

William Arthur Sirmon

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Jos

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

Geraldine Brooks

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Hugh Shelton