More than any time in recent history, America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arive...The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars...

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure - something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

Warren Bennis

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.

Kurt Vonnegut

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton

In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

Barry Commoner

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn't believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.

Curtis Stone

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Anne Hutchinson

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

John McEnroe

You cannot go ahead while you are getting even.

Dick Armey

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive

Friedrich Nietzsche