If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labor, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will be allowed by those who wish to elevate the character of a scholar; since they cannot but know that every human ac

Samuel Johnson

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Plato

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

Orison Swett Marden

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

Suzanne Somers

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

Mary Catherwood

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Thomas Jefferson

You could give me the past, he said a little sadly. But Alec is my future.

Cassandra Clare

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity.

Plutarch

You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away.

Citizen Cope

The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our punishment in the most sanguinary and expensive war of modern times.

Ulysses Simpson Grant, Personal

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison