I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain

There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

Ralph Waldo Trine

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

Elliot Richardson

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

General George Patton

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

A. R. Ammons

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Marilyn Manson

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Epictetus

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Ronald Reagan

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

Barbara Januszkiewicz