Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

Sir Philip Sidney

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.

Aldous Huxley

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Anthony Robbins

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Pierre Schaeffer

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

Jim Evans

The quality of your life is dependent upon the quality of the life of your cells. If the bloodstream is filled with waste products, the resulting environment does not promote a strong, vibrant, healthy cell life-nor a biochemistry capable of creating a balanced emotional life for an individual.

Anthony Robbins

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson

You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.

Franz Kafka

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley