A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

Muqtada al Sadr

When I face an issue of great import that cleaves both constituents and colleagues, I always take the same approach. I engage in deep deliberation and quiet contemplation. I wait to the last available minute and then I always vote with the losers. Because, my friend, the winners never remember and the losers never forget.

Thomas H. Kean

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Mark Twain

I did not obey your instructions. No. I conformed to the instructions of truth and Nature, and maintained your interest, against your opinions, with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability. I am to look, indeed, to your opinions,but to such opinions as you and I must have five years hence. I was not to look to the flash of the day. I knew that you chose me, in my place, along with others, to be a pillar of the state, and not a weathercock on the top of the edifice, exalted for my levity and versatility, and of no use but to indicate the shiftings of every fashionable gale.

Edmund Burke

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Mitch Albom

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

John Dryden

I love science fiction.

Pam Grier

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Will Rogers