I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Blaise Pascal

Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.

Robert Urich

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Brad Henry

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Mortimer Caplan

I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!

Paul Prudhomme

Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.

Suze Orman

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

Frederick Sanger

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Alasdair Gray

Jubal, the face said, I am thy loved Past, The soul that makes thee one from first to last. I am the angel of thy life and death, Thy outbreathed being drawing its last breath. Am I not thine alone, a dear dead bride Who blest thy lot above all men's beside?

George Eliot

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

Jonathan Swift

So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

Sanford I. Weill