I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

Plato

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

Theodore Bikel

History's a resource.

Laura Linney

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt.

Stephen Chbosky

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Henry David Thoreau

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Edward Gibbon

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

Ann Landers

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane

Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.

Haneef Fatmi

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

Marquis de Sade