Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

Abraham Lincoln

I did not know if the story was factually true or not, but it was emotionally true [...].

Richard Wright

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

Fulton J. Sheen

Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy adult.

Sir David Paradine Frost

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Neil Simon

But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The desire for a strong faith is not the proof of a strong faith, rather the opposite. If one has it one may permit oneself the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is secure enough, fixed enough for it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

Samuel Goldwyn

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Boris Trajkovski

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

Al Boliska