I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.

Anon.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?

Jim Rohn

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

Mark Knopfler

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Oscar Wilde

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

Thomas Frank

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

George Eliot

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Muhammad Iqbal

(Purkey credits his leadership characteristics to these threee events) http://www.elmle.org/CopenhagenSpeakers.htm http://www.invitationaleducation.net/

William W. Purkey

Congressman Berg will repeatedly talk about Harry Reid and Barack Obama, and I find it interesting, because this morning, when I woke up and brushed my teeth, I looked in the mirror and I did not see a tall, African-American, skinny man. So let's make it clear that my priorities are North Dakota priorities.

Heidi Heitkamp

It's inspirational to see someone who is dying smile.

Arlen Specter

My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Jim Fox