I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Truth and honesty are quite different. What a person believes to be true always follows when honesty leads the way. But truth can be asserted when one is being dishonest as well.

Eric Parslow

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

Alice Cooper

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.

Harry Mendelson

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

Dan Mckinnon

Leadership is about being a servant first.

Allen West

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

Thaddeus Golas

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

Norman Vincent Peale

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light--what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body, the map of a life of endless war.

Cassandra Clare