Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Dale Carnegie

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Austin O'Malley

You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

Humbert Wolfe

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Derek Jeter

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Helen Keller

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

Henry Spencer

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it, and habit fills up what remains.

Marcel Proust

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

Jodi Picoult

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

Gustav Stickley

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Marc Andreessen

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Craig Ferguson