Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

Mike Ditka

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Henry Lewis Stimson

I've had a lot of success over the years racing in New York, but the main point is that I feel the marathon is a different event, a lot more my event.

Paula Radcliffe

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.

Clare Boothe Luce

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

Jeff Hawkins

Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

Michelle Williams

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

Sappho

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Humility is attentive patience.

Simone Weil

Begin with another's to end with your own.

Baltasar Gracian

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

H. L. Mencken