Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.

Alain de Botton

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

Source Unknown

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

Rebecca Harding Davis

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

Heidi Klum

People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Oscar Wilde

I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products.

Steve Jobs

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Desmond Morris

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

John Steinbeck

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.

Albert Camus