When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.

President Obama's 100-day plan is pretty impressive. I think it's a Wow 100-plus days. The administration is not operating from fear, it is trying to drive change for the future, and that's a good thing.

Andrea Jung

The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal.That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Mark Twain, Monday Evening Club,

Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

Veronica Roth

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

James Stockdale

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

Albert Einstein

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Arnold H. Glasow

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

Honore de Balzac

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Ed Gillespie