By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Leon Panetta

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

Naguib Mahfouz

I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Danica McKellar

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Mary Astell

When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would make reading and writing the infatuation of people who have no business reading and writing.

James Burke, The Knowledge Web,

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: He trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

William Shakespeare

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

Albert Einstein

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully

Thomas Carlyle