Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth.

Dan Rather

When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.

Abraham Lincoln

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

Marsilio Ficino

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

Paris Hilton

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden

You have got to have discipline and focus - on the customer and how you run the business.

Jim Cantalupo

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James Freeman Clarke