When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

Julianne Hough

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

Hayden Fry

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Wil Zeus

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

John Foster Dulles

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Havelock Ellis

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

Rachel Carson

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Juvenal

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

Jennie Garth

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Nate Silver