Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

Lucas Grabeel

Politics has been called the art of the possible, and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

Thomas Mann

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

Venus Williams

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

Jeff Bezos

Hope might grant you a wish in the nick of time, Cosmic Ordering grants them all the time.

Stephen Richards

We all know of course that we cannot abolish all the evils in this world by statute or by the enforcement of statutes, nor can we prevent the inexorable law of nature which decrees that suffering shall follow vice, and all the evil passions and folly of mankind. Law cannot give to depravity the rewards of virtue, to indolence the rewards of industry, to indifference the rewards of ambition, or to ignorance the rewards of learning. The utmost that government can do is measurably to protect men, not against the wrong they do themselves but against wrong done by others and to promote the long, slow process of educating mind and character to a better knowledge and nobler standards of life and conduct. We know all this, but when we see how much misery there is in the world and instinctively cry out against it, and when we see some things that government may do to mitigate it, we are apt to forget how little after all it is possible for any government to do, and to hold the particular government of the time and place to a standard of responsibility which no government can possibly meet.

Elihu Root

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Phillips Brooks

If I can stop one heart from breakingI shall not live in vainIf I can ease on Life the AchingOr cool one painOr help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

Craig Ferguson

Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sakebut for the nations sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not military preparednessfor armed might is worthless if we lack the brain power to build a world of peace; not our productive economyfor we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of governmentfor freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

Lyndon B. Johnson