Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Theodore Roosevelt

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

Rachel Maddow

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

Lynn Austin

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

James K. Polk

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

Mark Hopkins

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable.

Bram Cohen

The cinema may have a specific beauty of its own, but it does not permit that constant re-reading, that meditative brooding, those turning-back to passages heavily charged with meaning, which form the special pleasure of the novel-reader.

Andre Maurois

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking of a tightrope.

Henri Matisse

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson