The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four.

Napoleon

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Benjamin Franklin

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Joe Frazier

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

Taraji P. Henson

Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.

George M. Adams

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

Samuel Johnson

I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.

Catherine the Great

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Thomas Carlyle

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already... begun to be warped, had been subtly manoeuvred in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress.

C.S. Lewis

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

Warren Cuccurullo