Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

Gary Locke

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

Vladimir Nabokov

Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

Emma Goldman

Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?

Richard Bach

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

H. L. Mencken

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Joel Osteen

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Judith Light

I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

Madeleine Peyroux

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Frances Wright

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

Rick Perry