You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries...

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Albert Einstein

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

Naguib Mahfouz

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place.

Paul Ryan

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Andre Gide

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

Blaise Pascal

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Cato The Elder

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.

Dean Kamen

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

Steve Maraboli