Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

J. Frank Doble

Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.

Nina Bawden

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Matthew Arnold

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

John Keegan

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Herbert Spencer

Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Leonard Boswell

Instead of asking -- How much damage will the work in question bring about? why not ask -- How much good? How much joy?

Henry Miller

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

Hannah Arendt

It's really easy to get caught up in outward appearance or attributes that I have or talents that I have and focus my worth on those things. And none of those things really have anything to do with my identity. And my identity is a child of God. And I think it's important to remember that God has created each of us uniquely and it doesn't make sense to compare ourselves to other people because God has a different plan and a purpose for each person that he's made. And so we need to just remember that we are created perfectly to fulfill the plan that God has for our individual life.

J.J. Heller

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

William M. Winans

If you're playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

Paul Newman

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Jodi Picoult